[tor-talk] virtual private servers for Tor?

[coderman]

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 12:12 PM, coderman <coderman at gmail.com> wrote:
> ... the very design trade offs they make to
> support larger numbers of contains per host directly reduce the
> networking performance and capacity of any singular container/vm.

note that design trade-offs in favor of speed also reduce the security
/ strength of isolation between host and guest. speed / throughput
alone should not be only consideration.

as to the question which work well or poorly as Tor routers, too many
factors for a simple yes or no. on a spectrum of best to worst try
this ranking, with the usual caveats of how context dependent views
are:

-BEST
xen
vmware
kvm
vserver
virtuzzo
virtualbox
qemu-kqemu
openvz
uml
qemu-softmmu
---worst

with the added caveat that many low end virtuozzo, openvz, uml hosting
are too constrained to run a useful relay.