Re: chroot or virtual machine

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

On Tue, 15 May 2012 11:45:58 +0200, David wrote in message 
<[🔎] 20120515094556.GA4970@pris.crapsteak.org>:

> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 07:13:23PM +0000, Ramon Hofer wrote:
> > Hi all
> > 
> > I'm planning on setting up my new media server.
> > 
> > So I was thinking of putting mythbackend, logitech media server, 
> > rtorrent, nfs, samba, etc. into virtual machines.
> 
> A virtual machine for every server? On what purpose?
> Is it about security?

..yup, the idea is deny bad code access to as much as possible,
it can only kill whatever it can see and touch, such as vm's.

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