Well, you look at it from the perspective of protection from attacks.
What I was inquiring about, was the easy of setup and the flexibility.
Reading the site about Ensim's products, I read the user can actually
decide to remove Apache and reinstall a different web server. Or simply
recompile other options in Apache. With FreeVSD, that's impossible.
Gregory A Lundberg wrote:
>
> > So what are the advantages/disadvantages of both systems ? Is FreeVSD
> > better or is it just the fact that it's free ?
>
> Of the top of my head, I'd saw neither is better.
>
> FreeVSD's method has the advantage of not granting root privilege, but the
> disadvantage that it needs to modify some things (which means FreeVSD might
> _NOT_ modify something important). To gain full root access to your
> machine, the FreeVSD user would need to crack root through one of the
> applications available to them.
>
> Using hard partitions and allowing root access to the virtual hosts has the
> advantage of not requiring nearly so much modification to your system, but
> has the disadvantage that the user is already root, so breaking out into the
> larger machine is much easier.
>
> I imagine a fully virtual system (where the entire system, kernel and all,
> runs in a virtual machine) has the advantage of being even more flexible
> (users could, for instance, choose to run FreeBSD, or even (gak) NT, on your
> Intel hardware. The disadvantage is this is resource-intensive if you want
> to host more than one or two virtual systems on your hardware.
>
> In none of these cases do you gain any advantage against defacements
> attacks, many DoS attacks, or using your hardware as a launching pad to
> attack others. The question boils down to simply being how hard it is for
> one user to break out and effect other users or the machine at large.
>
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