Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

2010-01-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:56:20AM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Boyd: With Xen/KVM/Qemu the guests are not fully protected from the host, but even kernel-level tasks/processes in the guests cannot affect the host unless there is a security issue with the

Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

2010-01-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 21 January 2010 00:47:28 Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Boyd: VServer and OpenVZ requires the guests to know they are running in a virtualized environment, since they share a kernel with the host. They don't support unmodified guest OSes. In case of guest

Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

2010-01-20 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Boyd: If I'm just separating one or more Apache 2 instances from one or more Exim instances from one or more Dovecot instances from one or more Postgres instances... They all have fairly good security records, and they all do the majority of their work as a

Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

2010-01-20 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and great answers, Steve: I want to separate diver services and make NAT to them - so that it be more secure in case if one of them will be hacked - I still Right so you want a host which has a public IP (or more than one) and each guest will have private IPs on

Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

2010-01-20 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Boyd: Xen also supports running unmodified guest OSes. Excuse me, but what does it mean unmodified guest OS? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

2010-01-20 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Boyd: With Xen/KVM/Qemu the guests are not fully protected from the host, but even kernel-level tasks/processes in the guests cannot affect the host unless there is a security issue with the specific virtualization technologies involved. Seems the more

Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

2010-01-20 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Michal: ahh idiot. Here is the link You are not! :) http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscw=2r=1s=obsd+as+domUq=b Thanks, once again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

2010-01-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 20 January 2010 11:45:32 Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Boyd: Xen also supports running unmodified guest OSes. Excuse me, but what does it mean unmodified guest OS? A guest OS that hasn't been modified to support whatever virtualization technology you are

Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

2010-01-20 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Boyd: VServer and OpenVZ requires the guests to know they are running in a virtualized environment, since they share a kernel with the host. They don't support unmodified guest OSes. In case of guest crack - will the attacker identify that he is in the

Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

2010-01-19 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, randall: some do, but i always use the vserver patched kernel from the repos, it never gave me any problems and i'm always assured of the security updates, did not have any issue when upgrading from etch to lenny. The thing you heard was broken is the

Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

2010-01-19 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Robert: Can You easily turn networked guests on/off? - Can others still function as before turning off of them? I dont know what you exactly mean, but you always can: vzctl stop xxx #this will stop virtual xxx and the others will remain running I'm

Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

2010-01-19 Thread Robert David
Dne Út 19. ledna 2010 17:39:39 Sthu Deus napsal(a): Thank You for Your time and answer, Robert: Can You easily turn networked guests on/off? - Can others still function as before turning off of them? I dont know what you exactly mean, but you always can: vzctl stop xxx #this will stop

Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

2010-01-15 Thread Robert David
Dne Čt 14. ledna 2010 13:36:03 Sthu Deus napsal(a): Thank You for Your time and answer, Robert: I think that openvz is stable enough for production use in lenny. And what I have read vserver does not have the nice features and wrapper like vzctl. How is it to install/manage/use/update?

Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

2010-01-14 Thread Michal
You need to say what you're using them for. Otherwise people who have experience with vserver will say it rocks, people who use openvz will say that rocks, and people using Xen will say that's even better. If you're using it for something specific then your needs and preferences

Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

2010-01-14 Thread randall
Sthu Deus wrote: Good day. As I have heard that vserver package does not work well in Debian, I would like to hear Your opinion (if any) on what is working more stable (well for use in production systems): 1. vserver 2. openvz 3. something else Thanks for Your time. PS Please, reply to

Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

2010-01-14 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Boyd: Xen. Why? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

2010-01-14 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, randall: thanks to the fact it shares the same kernel with the host and all the guests, but this could be a disadvantage if you need a seperate kernel per guest. One of the reasons I would like to use virtualization is security... so, how does using of a

Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

2010-01-14 Thread randall
Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, randall: thanks to the fact it shares the same kernel with the host and all the guests, but this could be a disadvantage if you need a seperate kernel per guest. One of the reasons I would like to use virtualization is security...

Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

2010-01-14 Thread Steve Kemp
On Thu Jan 14, 2010 at 18:43:07 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: One of the reasons I would like to use virtualization is security... What kind of security? Instead of having N applications installed on one host you could move to having 3+ virtual machines. That would suggest you'd need to

Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

2010-01-14 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time suggestion and answer, Steve: 1. vserver 2. openvz 3. something else You need to say what you're using them for. Otherwise people who have experience with vserver will say it rocks, people who use openvz will say that rocks, and people using Xen will say that's

Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

2010-01-14 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Robert: I think that openvz is stable enough for production use in lenny. And what I have read vserver does not have the nice features and wrapper like vzctl. How is it to install/manage/use/update? Can You easily turn networked guests on/off? - Can others

Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

2010-01-14 Thread Steve Kemp
On Thu Jan 14, 2010 at 19:32:16 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: I want to separate diver services and make NAT to them - so that it be more secure in case if one of them will be hacked - I still Right so you want a host which has a public IP (or more than one) and each guest will have private IPs

Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

2010-01-14 Thread Michal
*Sorry for the top post but this has only to do with the subject* I think you should read these posts started with obsd as domU. Someone started talking about using OpenBSD with virtulisation and some people had some interesting answers. I don't agree with everything said here, I use VMware ESXi

Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

2010-01-14 Thread Michal
ahh idiot. Here is the link http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscw=2r=1s=obsd+as+domUq=b On 14/01/2010 13:30, Michal wrote: *Sorry for the top post but this has only to do with the subject* I think you should read these posts started with obsd as domU. Someone started talking about using OpenBSD

Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

2010-01-14 Thread Chris Davies
Michal mic...@ionic.co.uk wrote: *Sorry for the top post but this has only to do with the subject* Why not remove the irrelevant stuff from your message? Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

2010-01-14 Thread Mark Allums
On 1/14/2010 4:28 AM, Michal wrote: You need to say what you're using them for. Otherwise people who have experience with vserver will say it rocks, people who use openvz will say that rocks, and people using Xen will say that's even better. If you are forced to run Windows, the

Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

2010-01-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 14 January 2010 05:39:04 Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Boyd: Xen. Why? Better isolation of guests from the host, but that's just hearsay on my part. More independence/flexibility in the guests (e.g. custom kernel or modules). Good commercial support, if

Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

2010-01-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 14 January 2010 10:25:35 Mark Allums wrote: On 1/14/2010 4:28 AM, Michal wrote: You need to say what you're using them for. Otherwise people who have experience with vserver will say it rocks, people who use openvz will say that rocks, and people using Xen will say that's

[OT] Trim Your Posts! (was: Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?)

2010-01-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 14 January 2010 07:30:20 Michal wrote: *Sorry for the top post but this has only to do with the subject* That makes top-posting appropriate, I guess. It doesn't explain why you couldn't trim the quoted text down to... nothing. You should only quote text that is required to give

Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

2010-01-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 14 January 2010 05:43:07 Sthu Deus wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, randall: thanks to the fact it shares the same kernel with the host and all the guests, but this could be a disadvantage if you need a seperate kernel per guest. One of the reasons I would like to use

Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

2010-01-13 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. As I have heard that vserver package does not work well in Debian, I would like to hear Your opinion (if any) on what is working more stable (well for use in production systems): 1. vserver 2. openvz 3. something else Thanks for Your time. PS Please, reply to the list. -- To

Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

2010-01-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 4b4ddfeb.0437560a.1e72.f...@mx.google.com, Sthu Deus wrote: I would like to hear Your opinion (if any) on what is working more stable (well for use in production systems): 3. something else Xen. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net

Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

2010-01-13 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 13 January 2010, Sthu Deus sthu.d...@gmail.com was heard to say: As I have heard that vserver package does not work well in Debian, I would like to hear Your opinion (if any) on what is working more stable (well for use in production

Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

2010-01-13 Thread Robert David
Hi I use openvz on my servers (lenny) without problems. I have never used vserver. I think that openvz is stable enough for production use in lenny. And what I have read vserver does not have the nice features and wrapper like vzctl. I just got virtuals: fedora, centos, debian lenny/squeeze,

Re: Which virtualization is the best for Debian?

2010-01-13 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed Jan 13, 2010 at 21:58:37 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: As I have heard that vserver package does not work well in Debian, I would like to hear Your opinion (if any) on what is working more stable (well for use in production systems): 1. vserver 2. openvz 3. something else You need to