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

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 07/03/07 20:53, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> 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?

If you own the web server, it's likely to be "easy" to crack other 
machines on the network.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

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