Re: [Xen-users] Multiseat workstation with one VM per user

[Gordan Bobic <gordan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2015-01-01 11:46, Simon Hobson wrote:
> Gordan Bobic <gordan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > - base system (dom0) as lean as possible, just for Xen
> > Trying to lean things out to a great extent is generally a
> > waste of time. On any recent Linux distribution the base
> > install is sufficiently large that it's losing game and
> > saving a few GB of disk space is not worth the effort.
> From the disk space POV you are correct, it's rarely going to be an
> issue. But cutting out all unnecessary services is always a good thing
> from the security/stability POV.

Good luck with that if your distro uses systemd. I recently found
gems such as KDE requiring mysqld because kdepim, which is included
in the default KDE package group. I very much doubt it is the only
instance of such insanities creeping into distributions.

Gordan

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