[clug] Why virtual x86 machines?

Kim Holburn kim.holburn at gmail.com
Sun Aug 23 07:40:17 UTC 2020


Thanks, I'll have a look.  Doesn't really solve the problem of noise and
power usage for home machines.

On 2020/08/23 9:27 am, David C wrote:
> On that, have a look at firecracker - KVM with a truly minimal and
> security focussed VM interface.
> 
> On Sat, 22 Aug 2020, 10:41 am Kim Holburn via linux,
> <linux at lists.samba.org <mailto:linux at lists.samba.org>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     On 2020/08/21 11:45 pm, Hugh Fisher via linux wrote:
>     > If a machine is idling away happily, so what? Why do we think it
>     > worthwhile or necessary to reach a level of utilization?
>     >
>     > I assume it's not hardcore Protestant theology, "the Devil finds work
>     > for idle CPUs".
>     >
>     > For environmental / monetary reasons, if you have expensive CPUs it is
>     > worthwhile to have the minimum number of systems running with as much
>     > utilization as required. But it seems to me that this is an industry
>     > choice, not the only way to do things.
> 
>     For a long time I have used almost the opposite system to
>     virtualisation, although virtualisation is growing on me.
> 
>     I have been working on home systems, especially home network security.
>     To call home network security pretty poor is a major understatement.  I
>     like to have small servers to create network infrastructure.  DNS,
>     syslog, LDAP, things like that.  I like them physically separate, on the
>     basis that there are often ways to penetrate the virtual barriers and
>     small so they don't end up loaded with too many applications.  Also for
>     homes, I don't like large noisy power hungry servers.  RaspberryPis are
>     perfect for this type of use.
> 
> 
>     Kim
> 
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