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> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stephen Harris
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 12:11 PM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: 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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