Nuitari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 02 May 2007 22:45:40 -0400:
> The 2 major motives for the upgrade is the increasing use of > virtualization on that server, and the Megarac g2 RAC. <drool> Hardware virtualization is something the 3-digit Opterons don't have, unfortunately, and it'll (hopefully) be several more years before I upgrade mobo again, tho as I said I'm upgrading the CPUs to dual-core pretty quickly now. I expect and predict that as hardware virtualization gets more common, the software/chroot level of protection now more or less routine for publicly exposed servers, especially as run on otherwise personal machines, will graduate to hardware virtualized servers, the idea being to make it even /more/ difficult for a compromised process to take over the entire host. That hardware virtualized separation has been the case on "big iron" for some time, and it's nice seeing it finally come down to the consumer level. However, it's a party I won't be joining for at least a few more years, if my hardware holds out, anyway. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
