On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 02:37:45PM -0400, Fareha Shafique wrote: [utmost important stuff zapped]
>>> So they thought about it, but found it infeasible? or unecessary? >> >> the thing is, there are a bunch of arguments against >> this setup, namely: >> >> - the host system usually is a minimal setup tailored >> to administration and management of the guests >> including security stuff and backup/failover >> >> - you do not change the host system very often, you >> want to keep it updated in regard to security though >> >> - for security reasons, you do not 'share' the host >> system with any guest you give avay ... >> >> > I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean by 'give away'. > Can you please explain this more? sell them, provide root shells to friends or whatever somebody does with a root environment in a guest >> - disk space is very cheap, so doing a similar approach >> with a 'guest template', which is shared or unified >> with many guests is not a big deal >> >> - different distros require different userspace, the >> amount of shared files is minimal across distros >> >> - CoW works fine, but reombining with a 'read-only' >> base which can be changed is a hard task, and usually >> not worth the efford ... best, Herbert _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [email protected] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
