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".

• Installing And Using OpenVZ On Fedora 9

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

  Installing And Using OpenVZ On Fedora 9 In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare a Fedora 9 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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• Installing And Using OpenVZ On CentOS 5.2

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: centos, openvz, virtualization • Comments: 4

  Installing And Using OpenVZ On CentOS 5.2 In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare a CentOS 5.2 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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• Installing And Using OpenVZ On Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: openvz, ubuntu, virtualization • Comments: 4

  Installing And Using OpenVZ On Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare an Ubuntu 8.04 LTS 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 Shrink VMware Virtual Disk Files (.vmdk)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: virtualization, vmware • Comments: 20

  How To Shrink VMware Virtual Disk Files (.vmdk) This guide shows how you can shrink the virtual disk files (they have the extension .vmdk) of your VMware virtual machines so that if you zip them, they will use much less space. It is then easier to upload and share them with other people.

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• Installing VirtualBox 2.0.0 On Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop

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

  Installing VirtualBox 2.0.0 On Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop This tutorial shows how you can install Sun xVM VirtualBox on an Ubuntu 8.04 desktop. With VirtualBox you can create and run guest operating systems ("virtual machines") such as Linux and Windows under a host operating system. There are two ways of installing VirtualBox: from precompiled binaries that are available for some distributions and come under the PUEL license, and from the sources that are released under the GPL. This article will show how to set up VirtualBox 2.0.0 from the precompiled binaries.

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• VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 2.0 On A Headless Ubuntu 8.04 Server

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: ubuntu, virtualbox, virtualization • Comments: 21

  VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 2.0 On A Headless Ubuntu 8.04 Server This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0 on a headless Ubuntu 8.04 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment. Fortunately, VirtualBox comes with a tool called VBoxHeadless that allows you to connect to the virtual machines over a remote desktop connection, so there's no need for the VirtualBox GUI.

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• How To Install VMware Server 2 On An Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, ubuntu, virtualization, vmware • Comments: 28

  How To Install VMware Server 2 On An Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server 2 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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• Virtualization With XenServer Express 5.0.0

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: virtualization, xen • Comments: 6

  Virtualization With XenServer Express 5.0.0 This Howto covers the installation of XenServer Express 5.0.0 and the creation of virtual machines with the XenCenter administrator console. XenServer Express is the free virtualization platform from Citrix, the company behind the well known Xen virtualization engine. XenServer Express makes it easy to create, run and manage Xen virtual machines with the XenCenter administrator console. The XenServer Express installation CD contains a full Linux distribution which is customized to run XenServer Express.

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• How To Install VMware Server 2 On A Fedora 9 Desktop

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, fedora, virtualization, vmware • Comments: 9

  How To Install VMware Server 2 On A Fedora 9 Desktop This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server 2 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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• Installing Xen On CentOS 5.2 (i386)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: centos, virtualization, xen • Comments: 9

  Installing Xen On CentOS 5.2 (i386) This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen (version 3.0.3) on a CentOS 5.2 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. 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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