[Discuss] Last Night's VLUG Meeting

[John Blomfield]

Andrew Willard wrote:
> Patrick wrote:
>
>> One possible cute trick with that would be to install a very small
>> `primary' system to act as host OS [say, Puppy, DSL or something
>> like that], but to do most of your actual work in assorted guest
>> OSes.
>
> Your cute trick is actually used ALL the time in a few places that I
> personally know about. One such shop uses OpenBSD as the host OS and
> then runs the Guest OS... but the key here was that the Guest OS would
> be sitting on a highly secure OS, especially for it's network connection.
> Those that know me will understand why the security is so important ;-)
>
Is this because OpenBSD is especial secure or is it because the guest OS 
are behind a NAT or because you set up the host to be very secure and 
the guests less so?
>
> Don't forget about many of the other alternatives:
> http://xen.org/   OR   http://openvz.org/   OR   
> http://bochs.sourceforge.net/
> OR   http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/
>
Have you tried all of these? Can you point us toward some sort 
comparison analysis?

John

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