[mythtv-users] Virtualisation in the home network -- ready for mainstream?

[Bill Williamson]

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:50 AM, David Brodbeck<gull at gull.us> wrote:
> On Wed, September 2, 2009 4:23 pm, Bill Williamson wrote:
>> 1. If you're a developer.  Switching between stable and unstable myth
>> backends can be a chore otherwise.
>>
>> 2. If you want to be able to run turnkey distributions for "services"
>> (mythbuntu for your myth backend, "asterisk at home" for voip, etc)
>> but don't have enough machines (but do have 1 large backend)
>>
>> 3. Carrying on from #2, if you've gone virtual it can be easy to
>> migrate (NOT live migrate!) if you buy another machine.
>
> Another reason to do it is as an added measure of privilege separation.
> If one virtual machine is compromised it probably won't lead to compromise
> of the other VMs, barring security problems with the VM hypervisor.  In an
> ideal world you wouldn't run, say, a web server and an NIS master on the
> same machine, but running them in separate VMs provides almost the same
> level of security without the extra box.


For home use?  If someone is compromising your linux boxes and ...
deleting your tv shows? ... I guess it's good that they can't then
make a phone call using asterisk?  Or something?