[Discuss] Last Night's VLUG Meeting

[Andrew Willard]

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 ;-)


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/