2014: The year of VM on the desktop

Why do I give foreign developers access to my SSH keys everytime I $package_manager get some untrusted code? Is anyone looking at npm? pip? Why isn't my banking actvity seperated? Should I run my day-to-day desktop operating system in a VM? _{(Is this already happening behind my back?)}

I'm too old to endlessly play around with new technologies. Which hosts, guests & hypervisors does /prog/ recommend?

So far I'm thinking FreeBSD as host, XP/ubuntu guests for various tasks w/ qemu as hypervisor.

install gnu/vms

I have a separate banking PC running OpenBSD.
For my day-to-day chores, I use Debian + sometimes Windows in a VirtualBox VM for corporate bullshit tasks.

Windows in a VirtualBox VM for corporate bullshit tasks

Those are the best! I always just annoy IT support and send retarded emails that ask how to get that VPN client to work on Linux.

seperated

Just die in a giant forest fire, maggot.

Host: Gentoo
\- Development Environment: Ubuntu
\- Secure environment: hardened, *BSD

I use KVM

I used to run Plan 9 in a VM under OpenBSD.

Now I just carry around two Thinkpads, one for each OS.

In general, if a VM uses up $20 worth of RAM, why not get a $25 Raspberry Pi to run it on real hardware?

>>7
Doesn't OpenBSD have sub-par support for virtualization?
Did you ever find it to be slow or buggy?

>>7
Because r-pi is slower.

>>8

Yes.

I was using Qemu. It worked well for about a year, but then an update made it take the cpu to 100%, and worse, refuse to run if I turned down the clock rate.

>>10
I see, that's a shame.
I hope that Theo will reconsider his stance on virtualization.

The year of VIM on the desktop.

Qubes OS is the most security-oriented thing I've read about, look it up.