I'm getting ready to build a new 1U server for myself; those
two
MBs have been suggested. The machine is not heavily loaded,
but
I plan to base the new system on Xen with dedicated VMs for
things
like web+mailman, dns, experimentation, etc. Any comments
on how
well these would work, and in particular support for the
Ethernet
and disk controllers? (The big advantage of the first one
is the
VT support, so that I can run things like FreeBSD which
don't have
DomU code. I'll probably get 2G of RAM, and dual 300G SATA
drives
in a RAIDframe configuration.
I may run -current; more likely, it will be 4.0beta moving
towards
4.0, since it's a production server.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbi
a.edu/~smb
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