[olug] Virtual Instance of Linux

[Eric Penne]

They don't have to be separated, but it was just a thought.  I didn't know
if it would help with security without me having 2 PCs.  The advice I
always get is to separate all your processes.  For example I try to
separate external machines from internally accessible machines.  I also
try to separate DNS from web.  The only reason is that if 1 goes down then
I'm not out 2 services.

Is there any security in making the external services listen on 1 IP and
the internal services listen on another IP?

In this case it would be really hard to get my 2 45GB drives into my
little webserver MiniITX machine.  I'm looking at a dual drive firewire
enclosure and I may do this and merge the 2 machines.

Just curious mostly.

Eric Penne


> Do they have to be separated?
>
> The simple way to go would be to just add the disk to the other system
> and have it do dual-duty.
>
> If you'd like to keep them separated, then you could use
> plex86 or alternatively bochs, vmware or (hercules running linux for
> S390)
>
>> I was curious.  I'm having trouble with my fileserver 166MHz Pentium
>> with 32MB of ram.  Next to it sits a Via 833MHz with 256MB of ram as a
>> webserver.  Is it possible to run 2 instances of Linux on one
>> processor so that 1 acts as a fileserver and 1 acts as a webserver and
>> they just share resources?  I know IBM and others have done this but I
>> didn't know if the average joe like me could do it.
>>
>> Eric Penne
>>
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