Stephen Boddy wrote:
On Tuesday 25 April 2006 01:40, Joachim Schrod wrote:
Stephen Boddy wrote:
If I'm limited to OSS in my guests, then why not just run it on my host? There are cases where it is useful, i.e. testing environments etc, but it very much depends on your usage.
E.g., to provide security environments. E.g., one Xen host can be a Web server on a firewall, thus implementing a virtual DMZ. This is very interesting for SOHO and private home installations that don't want to establish real DMZs with real machines.
Yes it's an interesting concept. I was thinking of something very similar using vmware in pre-Xen days. But the problem is securing Xen whilst giving access to the toys we all want in our desktop user experience.
You're right; that's why I proposed to use Xen for servers. :-) It is quite clear that Xen is not a replacement for VMware. For example, I have roughly 20-30 VMware instances on my personal system (various customer environments, test installations of other operating systems, development/compile environments, test environments, etc.) But I have only two or three Xen servers; and none of them for interactive usage. Nevertheless, they are much more lightweight than VMware is. Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod@acm.org Roedermark, Germany