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> <drool> Hardware virtualization is something the 3-digit Opterons don't |
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> have, unfortunately, and it'll (hopefully) be several more years before I |
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> upgrade mobo again, tho as I said I'm upgrading the CPUs to dual-core |
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> pretty quickly now. |
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> I expect and predict that as hardware virtualization gets more common, |
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> the software/chroot level of protection now more or less routine for |
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> publicly exposed servers, especially as run on otherwise personal |
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> machines, will graduate to hardware virtualized servers, the idea being |
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> to make it even /more/ difficult for a compromised process to take over |
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> the entire host. That hardware virtualized separation has been the case |
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> on "big iron" for some time, and it's nice seeing it finally come down to |
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> the consumer level. However, it's a party I won't be joining for at |
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> least a few more years, if my hardware holds out, anyway. |
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Unfortunately it looks like that I'll have to keep using vmware on it for |
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a while as I won't have the new hardware locally long enough to really |
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test QEMU / KVM. |
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