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Re: Purpose of a hypervisor (was Re: rock solid)



On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 06:22:46PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 07/03/07 13:25, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >
> >Dom0: local file server (video, music, local backups)
> >
> >     DomU1: firewall
> 
> I understand the need for a small, "separate" firewall.
> 
> >     DomU2: dmz mail/imaps server
> >     DomU3: dmz apache server
> >
> >the primary reason is as a testbed for me to learn stuff. It has the
> >nice feature of segmenting functionality without more machines
> >running. 
> 
> But then you are trying to statically do (allocate CPU and RAM) what 
> the kernel can do so much better.
> 
What about that if his webserver gets hacked, then his mail server is
safe and vice versa?

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sánchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com

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