[nzlug] Server Consolidation

[Daniel Lawson]

>> I was wondering if anyone knew of a decent tutorial on running IPCop
>> within a virtual machine on the file server so that I can reduce my
>> electricity bill and the noise in my room and anything relating to the
>> security of doing such a thing. I've noticed in the list of packages
>> IPCop now has vmware-tools so I'm pretty sure it can be done securely.
>>     
>
> Why not having one server that will run a Xen system and set it up
> using NAT?  The dom0 is purely running as a firewall using IPTables
> (or probably IPKungFu) then your domU will be running your needed
> network services?
>   

Or just add an iptables firewall to your existing Ubuntu box... I use 
xen all the time, and am very familiar with virtualisation in general, 
however this feels a bit much like overcomplicating things :)