On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Giles Orr <gilesorr@gmail.com> wrote:
Advantages: - I get to tinker with multiple OSes (something I enjoy) - if I'm about to go to a dubious website, I can clone a virtual machine, use it for the dubious visit, then destroy it
Disadvantages that I've thought of so far: - memory usage - speed reduction - hard drive usage for disk images - complexity - mounting USB sticks on guests is extremely problematic - playing sound/video from guests through the host is imperfect - hard to determine where an application is running from
It doesn't address all your proposed scenarios but you might want to check out LXC containers for generating lightweight virtual machines... I have just started messing around with it and found these links to be interesting: * https://wiki.debian.org/LXC * https://linuxcontainers.org/lxc/getting-started/ * https://www.stgraber.org/2013/12/20/lxc-1-0-blog-post-series/ * https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/lxc.html * https://linuxcontainers.org/lxc/manpages/index.html -- (o< .: Per curiositas ad astra .: http://www.circuidipity.com (/)_