"Lopez, Denise" <dlopez(a)humnet.ucla.edu> writes:
Hi all,
I am in the process of building a new Xen server from scratch and wanted
to ask a couple of questions about best practices.
First, should the guest domains be image files or LVM's or just regular
ext3 partitions? What are the pros and/or cons of each?
Image files are slow. Sparse image files lead to *nasty* domU data
corruption when you run out of space in the filesystem containing the
image file.
LVM vs. regular partitions is the usual deal: LVM gives you more
flexibility. You might find that you appreciate the flexibility even
more when you run guests.
Second, since the Dom0 is supposed to be kept secure, and most of
my
servers I don't install any X11 server on, is there any security risk
installing an X11 server on the Dom0 in order to take advantage of the
virt-manager GUI interface?
X is network transparent. Why not use a remote display? You don't
need an X server in dom0 for that.
Thank you in advance for any thoughts and or opinions.
Denise Lopez