Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo: stock trading tools ?

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 10:17 AM, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote:
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> Hello Mark,
>
> I think I'll put the R stuff as research interest on a separate
> machine to evaluate...  I'm Looking for some guidance on this
> (VM) subject, related to online stock trading. Should I set up a
> machine on a hardened system? SeLinux? Other ideas like a
> transparent bride with some specific application filtering?
>

Sounds like you're beyond my abilities. I use standard stable Gentoo
myself. (I.e. - NOT ~amd64) Each Windows VM has it's own Windows
license as well as it's own virus protection license. I run different
trading apps in different VMs. All trading VMs are Virtualbox.

In my case the compute server is a 12 core Intel machine. I dedicate
10 cores to the VMs (6 cores to one VM, 2 cores each to the other 2
VMs) for 3 VMs using 10 cores. That leaves 2 cores to Gentoo to manage
the hardware.

I do similar things on an 8 core machine, etc. I always reserve 2 CPUs
for Gentoo.

NOTE: Windows and it's apps are memory hogs so you'll need a LOT more
memory than you think to make this work well day in and day out.

> Should I setup a specific application firewall between the VM system
> and the outside net? A generic security (architectural) approach is of
> keen interest to me (reading references?). Windows security for me is
> often troublesome; so specific (private?) suggestions are also of keen
> interest to me.
>

Again, probably beyond my abilities to give guidance. I use standard
Windows virus & firewall protection inside each VM and hope for the
best figuring it's no worse than using Windows on real hardware.

As with everything Windows, it's all a crap shoot as far as I can tell.

HTH,
Mark