-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Harris Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 12:11 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Virtualisation
I'm building a new server at home to handle most of my internal requirements (mail, news, dns, dhcp, backups being the biggies). I also want it to host a couple of virtual servers which are allowed incoming connections from the internet (mail gateway, web server, ssh server); these are virtual so if a hacker _can_ break in then they're limited as to what they can see.
At present the virtual machines are vserver instances on an old FC2 box.
I'm wondering what people recommend for virtual servers these days? CentOS 4 with a vserver kernel? Wait for CentOS 5 and use Xen? VMware? (Vmware is the heavy solution, but it does mean I could host a windows session if I wanted to). Or Solaris 10 and zones?
Any thoughts?
If it is a home server why not a bare-bones FC6 Xen box running CentOS guests for mail, www, ssh?
-Ross
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