[Discuss] Last Night's VLUG Meeting

[Andrew Willard]

John Blomfield wrote:

> Is this because OpenBSD is especial secure or is it because the guest OS 
> are behind a NAT or because you set up the host to be very secure and 
> the guests less so?

I'm assuming, without calling my buddy, that the decision to use OpenBSD was
simply it's renowned overall security (hardening), small footprint and excellent
firewall. Another reason, that I'm aware of, was the ability to reduce down times
with Windows updates (only one update needed, rather than everyone having to do it)
and any workstation that had Windows issues could be back up in a matter of a
few seconds.

>> 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/
>>
> Have you tried all of these?

Sure have... along with a number of others... Win4Lin, Cedega, Parallels, etc
Ask Joan about the demo I put on at BB&C a few years ago where I
showed off most if not all of these VM's.

> Can you point us toward some sort comparison analysis?

Not off the top of my head but I'm sure there must be something
online if I did some searching.