Virtualisation.

[David Thorne]

We run Xen at work quite extensivly, both in a commercial environment through Citrix Xen Enterprise and also the OSS version that comes with RHEL/CentOS and the likes.

I have never had a problem with it, in fact I love it.  The only reason I don't use it for all my VMs is the GUI's that exist for it on the desktop - in my opinion - suck.  If you don't require a GUI (And as this is a secure server I would highly recommend you did not let X any where near the machine - a good golden rule as I am sure you know is only install what you need)

I am probably doing a Refresh talk on VM's in April. If you would like I would be more than happy to show you a sneak preview of my presentation if you would like, as I suspect April will be quite a long time to wait for an active project.  I am pretty sure you are on the Refresh Cambridge list, if not it's available to subscribe at http://www.refreshcambridge.org/

Hope this helps,
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dom Latter" <dom at latter.org>
To: clug at cambridge-lug.org
Sent: Thursday, 12 February, 2009 9:59:51 AM GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
Subject: Virtualisation.

As part pf the same project that calls for an encrypted filesystem, I'm 
looking at running a virtual machine.

The main server is intended to be highly secure and will run a subversion 
server as a document repository.

The client then mentioned moving their email and web servers on to this
machine.  To keep things secure I think it's best to run this on a VM.

Security / separation is probably more important than performance.

I think Xen looks like the best candidate for the job.  Vserver is
fast but doesn't provide as much separation.  UML is my other current 
option.

We've got a VT-enabled Xeon to run on so it will play nicely with Xen.

Any thoughts?
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