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Re:Missing Option (Score:4, Insightful)
In other words, don't attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity! ;-) (I didn't really think it was stupid, just not all that interesting.)
Full throttle virtualization for the most part... (Score:5, Insightful)
All my boxes have some type of hypervisor on them, be it a level 1 hypervisor like on my home desktop box that runs Windows Server 2012, or a level 2 hypervisor like my MacBook running Parallels.
Lots of advantages with this type of setup:
1: I can do my Web browsing in a VM on a remote machine, so if the remote Web browser is attacked, it would take some doing to get to a machine that is just acting as a keyboard/monitor. Plus, I can roll back the compromised snapshot. Not 100%, but good enough for most tasks.
2: Snapshots. Bad Windows patch won't allow the box to boot, roll back to previous snapshot. No reinstalling or restores necessary.
3: Compartmentalization. I have some old rickety utilities that need an older environment to run, and the energy cost of an older PC is pointless compared to running it on a newer box.
4: Hardware independence. I upgrade my VM server, copy the virtual disks, and the VMs don't know/care.
5: Backups. If I copy the VM and its drives somewhere, I know it is backed up completely.
6: Adding more hosts. I like having different machines for different tasks, so having multiple VM disk images stored on a deduplicating filesystem allows for applications to be separate but without wasting disk space for each separate instance of the OS.
7: Security. I toss the VM's image files in a TC volume. This provides decent security, although not perfect (still vulnerable to Firewire RAM snooping, cold RAM attacks, etc.)
Re:My plan (Score:4, Insightful)