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 On A Fedora 7 Desktop

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, fedora, virtualization, vmware • Comments: 7

  How To Install VMware Server On A Fedora 7 Desktop This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server on a Fedora 7 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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• Installing Xen On CentOS 5.0 (i386)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: centos, virtualization, xen • Comments: 7

  Installing Xen On CentOS 5.0 (i386) This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen (version 3.0.3) on a CentOS 5.0 system (i386). 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.

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• Installing Xen On An Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Server From The Ubuntu Repositories

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

  Installing Xen On An Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Server From The Ubuntu Repositories This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen on an Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (Ubuntu 7.04) server system (i386). You can find all the software used here in the Ubuntu repositories, so no external files or compilation are needed. 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).

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• Installing Xen On An Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) Server From The Ubuntu Repositories

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: ubuntu, virtualization, xen • Comments: 8

  Installing Xen On An Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) Server From The Ubuntu Repositories This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen on an Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon (Ubuntu 7.10) server system (i386). You can find all the software used here in the Ubuntu repositories, so no external files or compilation are needed.

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• Creating Virtual Machines In VMware Server From ISO Files Without Burning CDs/DVDs

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: virtualization, desktop, vmware • Comments: 2

  Creating Virtual Machines In VMware Server From ISO Files Without Burning CDs/DVDs This article explains how you can create virtual machines in VMware Server from .iso files without burning the .iso file to a CD or DVD. This way you can save lots of blank CDs/DVDs.

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• How To Make Your Xen-PAE Kernel Work With More Than 4GB RAM (Debian Etch With GRUB)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, virtualization, xen • Comments: 1

  How To Make Your Xen-PAE Kernel Work With More Than 4GB RAM (Debian Etch With GRUB) If you have a server with more than 4GB RAM and want to install a 32bit Debian Etch on it (following this tutorial: Debian Etch And Xen From The Debian Repository), you'd expect the Xen-PAE kernel to see all your RAM because the Xen-PAE kernel supports up to 64GB RAM. In fact, it recognizes only about 3.3GB RAM due to a bug in the GRUB bootloader. This article explains how you can fix GRUB so that all your RAM gets recognized.

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• Installing Xen On An Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) Server From The Ubuntu Repositories

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: ubuntu, virtualization, xen • Comments: 24

  Installing Xen On An Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) Server From The Ubuntu Repositories This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen on an Ubuntu Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04) server system (i386). You can find all the software used here in the Ubuntu repositories, so no external files (apart from a fixed Ubuntu Xen kernel to enable networking for the virtual machines) or compilation are needed.

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• Installing And Using OpenVZ On Debian Etch

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, openvz, virtualization • Comments: 2

  Installing And Using OpenVZ On Debian Etch In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare a Debian Etch server for OpenVZ. With OpenVZ you can create multiple Virtual Private Servers (VPS) on the same hardware, similar to Xen and the Linux Vserver project. OpenVZ is the open-source branch of Virtuozzo, a commercial virtualization solution used by many providers that offer virtual servers. The OpenVZ kernel patch is licensed under the GPL license, and the user-level tools are under the QPL license.

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• How To Install VMware Server (Version 1.0.6) On A Fedora 9 Desktop

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, fedora, virtualization, vmware • Comments: 8

  How To Install VMware Server (Version 1.0.6) On A Fedora 9 Desktop This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server (version 1.0.6) on a Fedora 9 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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• How To Install VMware Server (Version 1.0.6) On An Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, ubuntu, virtualization, vmware • Comments: 4

  How To Install VMware Server (Version 1.0.6) On An Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server (version 1.0.6) on an Ubuntu 8.04 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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