Running a Gentoo Server with VMs

[_slowpoke_]

Ahoy,

I'm planning to run a server with Gentoo, both as the host system as well as in various virtual machines (using libvirt and KVM).

My current plan involves a single builder VM which acts as a BINHOST for the other VMs, both to avoid duplicate building of shared or equally configured packages as well as to test building updates before deploying them. The other VMs will mostly be single purpose machines for things such as mail, dns, shell and web servers, IRC, Jabber, monitoring and some other services. For managing VM storage, I'll be using ZFS.

I wanted to ask whether anyone has experiences to share about similar setups, helpful advice (or pitfall warnings) for Gentoo on servers, or maybe completely different successful strategies.

Greetings,
slowpoke
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[NeddySeagoon]

_slowpoke_,

Like this?

The only reason I don't share stuff is that my VWs are an different network segments, so I don't want to share any security compromises too.
I do keep a master VM which I clone wen I want a new VM.

That HOWTO is quite old, I don't think it will work line by line any more.
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NeddySeagoon

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