> Can someone please inform me if this is a really bad idea or not, > ideally with some nice reasoning?
Hi Josh, VM is great and I use it a lot for test and development. It's a marvellous tool. I also think it's very good to make virtual web/ftp/whatever servers, it eases maintenance and add a layer of reliability. That being said it doesn't make sense to virtualize the whole network, especially firewalls, on the same machine. Your virtual OpenBSD is just going to be a fancy and heavy weight personal firewall. Personal firewalls are useful but they don't offer the same level of security. Your call. -- Die Gestalt
