[CentOS] Virtualisation

[John Summerfield]

Stephen Harris wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 01:31:34PM -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
>>> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Harris
> 
>>> I acknowledge I have farmed out my risk to an "untrusted third party",
>>> but that's part of risk management; my evaluation is that 
> 
>> Risk management? Is this a home network or a business network?
> 
> It's my home network.  I have documents on my machines that are private
> and personal.  I don't want hackers on my machines.  Therefore I have a
> risk that needs to be managed.  Just because I use professional jargon
> doesn't mean it isn't relevant.
> 
>> Well then, sounds like your mind is made up already, why ask?
> 
> I asked what virtualisation technology people recommended; I didn't even
> _mention_ Fedora in my original list because I knew it wasn't suitable.
> Someone asked me "why not a bare-bones FC6 Xen box" and I answered
> why not.
> 

So long as Xen works as promised, it shouldn't matter too much what the 
host is, it just doesn't have any network connexion terminating at itself.

I'd not rule out FC{6,7} for the host, I'd just not run it as a guest 
except for testing.

However, if you want a slimmed down host, look at Debian. You should be 
able to get a host in under 512 Mbytes of disk. It will also have 
updates into the forseeable future. There's a package, xen-tools, of 
scripts to help building new guests, and it even supports rpmstrap to 
build CentOS.

I've not tried hosting CentOS 4 yet (my test hardware lacks 
virtualisation), I'm having enough trouble^H^H^H^H^H^Hfun with Debian 
under Debian. And assorted unrelated matters.






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