Ira Abramov wrote: > a. do I gain anything at all by reinstalling my system as a 64 bit one? > to the best of my knowledge there will be no change in speed, I don't > have over 4 gigs of RAM and certainly no intention of running processes > of more than a few hundred megs in size. In THEORY, additional advantage is faster and more precise computation of floating point operations, which is best for heavy computational simulations.
> > b. I just noticed it has the much talked-about VT extensions, would it > be easy for me then to keep the system as a router/firewall and a > desktop and securely also install a second "slave" VM to run other OSs, > or do I need a lean Xen "base/visor" and the desktop should not run on > it? Is this worth the headache or should I look into VirtualBox or > VMWarePlayer instead? I remember there were some shortcuts in network > security wehn Xen is activated, so maybe it's safer not to use it if the > machine is meant to be a firewall as well. I didn't understand why you need VT, but anyway there is additional good solution: KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) http://kvm.qumranet.com/ > > those are the two main things at the moment I guess :-) > -- Leon Romanovsky --------------------------------- "It's time to world to changing".
