carlopmart wrote: > Advantages are very clear for me: provisioning, administration tasks, > etc ... But I will to know disadvantages. What is your opinion from the > point of view of security?
I use virtualization for many things (mainly for the productivity advantages that you list), but it has always bothered me because virtualization is pretending. In Java, for example, the VM pretends about a lot of things that are not true in the physical world. This makes it easy and convenient for programmers. The problem is that they come to believe that the pretend things are real and then make assumptions (when dealing with physical machines) that are incorrect. I would say that so long as you understand that a lot of pretending is going on when doing any sort of virtualization, (and you accept that) and that you know the differences between the pretend machines and the real machines then you know all you need to know in order to decide if it is right for your environment. Brad
