On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Bill Longman <bill.long...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 08/14/2010 12:32 PM, Jarry wrote: >> On 13. 8. 2010 21:05, Enrico Weigelt wrote: >>> * Bill Longman<bill.long...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Basically just run VMWare/Virtualbox etc and put the services in there. >>> >>> well, these solutions are way "bigger" (iow: more resource >>> intensive), since they run a complete operation system instance >>> within the virtual machine. >> >> That is why I picked up Linux-VServer (actually, first I tried >> OpenVZ but could not make it run). It is a kind of compromise, >> where all guests share the same kernel. This brings certain >> security implications, but on the other side, I can run dozens >> of guest on a moderate machine, with 4-cores and 8GB memory >> (i.e. a guest running bind takes just about 20MB of memory)... > > This looks rather interesting, Jarry. Is it simply a matter of compiling > the vserver-sources and util-vserver? Did it take much time to set up > the kernel for your box? Or is it pretty much a typical kernel setup? > Any good tools in the util-vserver package? > >> The only service running on my "host" (main system) is sshd, >> which I secured as much as I could. Everything else (web, mail, >> dns, ftp, syslog, X, and plenty of users' services) runs on its >> own guest-system, chrooted in addition (where it was possible). > > Sounds very efficient. > > TIA, > > Bill
Certainly looks interesting. I guess the baselayout-vserver packages is somehow for setting up each of the guests? QUESTION: Where does X run? In the host or separate copies in each guest? For a long time I've wanted to set up a single piece of hardware for my parents, but with two screens, two keyboards, two mice. Each user would have what they expect in front of them physically but it's really a single computer. Can that be done using this software? Thanks, Mark
