From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HjUYP-0004K9-4v for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 06:12:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l436AfRR002712; Thu, 3 May 2007 06:10:41 GMT Received: from melchior.nuitari.net (melchior.nuitari.net [209.222.54.175]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l436Adjw002706 for ; Thu, 3 May 2007 06:10:40 GMT Received: (qmail 25195 invoked by uid 500); 3 May 2007 06:11:31 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 3 May 2007 06:11:31 -0000 Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 02:11:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Nuitari To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Tyan Motherboards In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Archives-Salt: ea0ebee4-a852-42bc-9223-76cca1e8264a X-Archives-Hash: 8f634489170561930ab835549b15203d > Hardware virtualization is something the 3-digit Opterons don't > have, unfortunately, and it'll (hopefully) be several more years before I > upgrade mobo again, tho as I said I'm upgrading the CPUs to dual-core > pretty quickly now. > > I expect and predict that as hardware virtualization gets more common, > the software/chroot level of protection now more or less routine for > publicly exposed servers, especially as run on otherwise personal > machines, will graduate to hardware virtualized servers, the idea being > to make it even /more/ difficult for a compromised process to take over > the entire host. That hardware virtualized separation has been the case > on "big iron" for some time, and it's nice seeing it finally come down to > the consumer level. However, it's a party I won't be joining for at > least a few more years, if my hardware holds out, anyway. Unfortunately it looks like that I'll have to keep using vmware on it for a while as I won't have the new hardware locally long enough to really test QEMU / KVM. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list