Re: VM system for firewall use

[John Babwell <johnbabwell () mailcan com>]

If you have control over the whole box, choose the new open source
hypervisor Xen.  It will do all this and very efficiently (Xen is
extremely cool). 
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 17:52:16 +0400
ArkanoiD <ark () eltex net> wrote:

> nuqneH,
>
> Looks like i am being forced into designing all-in-one box with extended
> functionality, combining firewall and a buch of services i really don't like
> putting into firewall, but they say it's marketing demand ;-)
>
> The serives are antispam/anitvirus filters/IDS corellator and so on.
> I strongly decline running those in the same address space. So using
> system call wrappers like FreeBSD jail is not sufficient. I'd prefer
> BSD-like system, but only thing that does fit my needs seems to be
> User Mode Linux. Are there other things worth detailed analysis?
> boschs (if i remember the name correctly) has terrific performance overhead,
> vmware is proprietary..
>
> Another question is inter-instanse communication. I need a kind of loopback
> interface to let components to talk to each other without allowing access
> to physical NIC when it is not required. Any hints?
>
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