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 1HjUAe-0002p0-3o for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 05:48:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l435iwOg015371; Thu, 3 May 2007 05:44:58 GMT Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l435iwmM015357 for ; Thu, 3 May 2007 05:44:58 GMT Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HjU7X-0006Jy-3H for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 07:44:51 +0200 Received: from ip68-230-67-248.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.230.67.248]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 03 May 2007 07:44:51 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-230-67-248.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 03 May 2007 07:44:51 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Tyan Motherboards Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 05:44:38 +0000 (UTC) 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=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-230-67-248.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.128 (SR/CL: Leitmotiv: Toynbee Idea) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: e765c594-ad47-4117-87fb-b6025b1e04e5 X-Archives-Hash: 0018b5a05e2ab0e0c0673bc550f473fc Nuitari posted Pine.LNX.4.64.0705022238430.22431@melchior.nuitari.net, excerpted below, on Wed, 02 May 2007 22:45:40 -0400: > The 2 major motives for the upgrade is the increasing use of > virtualization on that server, and the Megarac g2 RAC. 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. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list