Articles by Falko Timme

About Falko Timme

Falko Timme is an experienced Linux administrator and founder of Timme Hosting, a leading nginx business hosting company in Germany. He is one of the most active authors on HowtoForge since 2005 and one of the core developers of ISPConfig since 2000. He has also contributed to the O'Reilly book "Linux System Administration".

• How To Install VMware Server 2 On Debian Lenny

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, desktop, virtualization, vmware • Comments: 16

  How To Install VMware Server 2 On Debian Lenny This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server 2 on a Debian Lenny desktop system. With VMware Server you can create and run guest operating systems ("virtual machines") such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host operating system. This has the benefit that you can run multiple operating systems on the same hardware which saves a lot of money, and you can move virtual machines from one VMware Server to the next one (or to a system that has the VMware Player which is also free).

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• VirtualBox 2: How To Pass Through USB Devices To Guests On An Ubuntu 8.10 Host

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: virtualization, ubuntu, desktop, virtualbox • Comments: 8

  VirtualBox 2: How To Pass Through USB Devices To Guests On An Ubuntu 8.10 Host This short guide shows how you can pass through USB devices (such as a USB flash drive) to VirtualBox guests on an Ubuntu 8.10 VirtualBox 2 host. USB support is available only in the VirtualBox PUEL (closed-source) edition, not in the OSE edition, so make sure you have the PUEL edition installed.

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• Virtualization With KVM On A CentOS 5.2 Server

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: centos, kvm, virtualization • Comments: 3

  Virtualization With KVM On A CentOS 5.2 Server This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on a CentOS 5.2 server. I will show how to create image-based virtual machines and also virtual machines that use a logical volume (LVM). KVM is short for Kernel-based Virtual Machine and makes use of hardware virtualization, i.e., you need a CPU that supports hardware virtualization, e.g. Intel VT or AMD-V.

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• Xen: How to Convert An Image-Based Guest To An LVM-Based Guest

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: virtualization, xen • Comments: 4

  Xen: How to Convert An Image-Based Guest To An LVM-Based Guest This short article explains how you can move/convert a Xen guest that uses disk images to LVM volumes. Virtual machines that use disk images are very slow and heavy on disk IO, therefore it's often better to use LVM. Also, LVM-based guests are easier to back up (using LVM snapshots).

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• KVM Virtualization With Enomalism 2 On A Fedora 10 Server

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: fedora, kvm, virtualization • Comments: 1

  KVM Virtualization With Enomalism 2 On A Fedora 10 Server Enomalism ECP (Elastic Computing Platform) provides a web-based control panel that lets you design, deploy, and manage virtual machines on one or more host systems (in the case of multiple systems, we speak of a cluster or cloud). This article shows how you can use Enomalism (also know as Enomaly) to manage KVM guests on one Fedora 10 server.

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• Managing Multiple KVM Hosts With Enomalism2 [Ubuntu 8.10]

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: kvm, ubuntu, virtualization • Comments: 0

  Managing Multiple KVM Hosts With Enomalism2 [Ubuntu 8.10] In my previous guide about how to set up Enomalism2 on Ubuntu 8.10 I concentrated on just one KVM host. This tutorial is an extension to that article in that it shows how to add further Ubuntu 8.10 KVM hosts to the setup that can then be managed from one single control panel.

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• How To Do Live Migration Of OpenVZ Containers

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: virtualization, openvz • Comments: 3

  How To Do Live Migration Of OpenVZ Containers This guide explains how you can do a live migration of an OpenVZ container from one OpenVZ host to the other. Both OpenVZ hosts are running on Debian Lenny in this article, but the live migration does not differ on other distributions.

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• Paravirtualization With Xen On CentOS 5.3 (x86_64)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: centos, virtualization, xen • Comments: 0

  Paravirtualization With Xen On CentOS 5.3 (x86_64) This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen (version 3.0.3) on a CentOS 5.3 (x86_64) system. Xen lets you create guest operating systems (*nix operating systems like Linux and FreeBSD), so called "virtual machines" or domUs, under a host operating system (dom0). Using Xen you can separate your applications into different virtual machines that are totally independent from each other (e.g. a virtual machine for a mail server, a virtual machine for a high-traffic web site, another virtual machine that serves your customers' web sites, a virtual machine for DNS, etc.), but still use the same hardware. This saves money, and what is even more important, it's more secure. If the virtual machine of your DNS server gets hacked, it has no effect on your other virtual machines. Plus, you can move virtual machines from one Xen server to the next one.

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• Virtualization With KVM On Ubuntu 9.04

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: kvm, ubuntu, virtualization • Comments: 1

  Virtualization With KVM On Ubuntu 9.04 This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on an Ubuntu 9.04 server. I will show how to create image-based virtual machines and also virtual machines that use a logical volume (LVM). KVM is short for Kernel-based Virtual Machine and makes use of hardware virtualization, i.e., you need a CPU that supports hardware virtualization, e.g. Intel VT or AMD-V.

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• How To Install VMware Server 2 On Ubuntu 9.04

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: ubuntu, virtualization, vmware • Comments: 43

  How To Install VMware Server 2 On Ubuntu 9.04 This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server 2 on an Ubuntu 9.04 desktop system. With VMware Server you can create and run guest operating systems ("virtual machines") such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host operating system. This has the benefit that you can run multiple operating systems on the same hardware which saves a lot of money, and you can move virtual machines from one VMware Server to the next one (or to a system that has the VMware Player which is also free).

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