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".

• Virtualization With KVM On A Fedora 11 Server

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

  Virtualization With KVM On A Fedora 11 Server This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on a Fedora 11 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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• Virtualization With XenServer 5.5.0

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: virtualization, xen • Comments: 17

  Virtualization With XenServer 5.5.0 This Howto covers the installation of XenServer 5.5.0 and the creation of virtual machines with the XenCenter administrator console. XenServer is a free virtualization platform from Citrix, the company behind the well known Xen virtualization engine. XenServer makes it easy to create, run and manage Xen virtual machines with the XenCenter administrator console. The XenServer installation CD contains a full Linux distribution which is customized to run XenServer.

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• Installing VirtualBox 3.0 On An Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, ubuntu, virtualbox, virtualization • Comments: 26

  Installing VirtualBox 3.0 On An Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop This tutorial shows how you can install Sun VirtualBox 3.0 (released on June 30, 2009) on an Ubuntu 9.04 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 3.0 from the precompiled binaries.

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• VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 3.0 On A Headless Ubuntu 9.04 Server

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: ubuntu, virtualbox, virtualization • Comments: 6

  VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 3.0 On A Headless Ubuntu 9.04 Server This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with Sun VirtualBox 3.0 (released on June 30, 2009) on a headless Ubuntu 9.04 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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• Installing VirtualBox 3.0 On A Fedora 11 Desktop

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

  Installing VirtualBox 3.0 On A Fedora 11 Desktop This tutorial shows how you can install Sun VirtualBox 3.0 (released on June 30, 2009) on a Fedora 11 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 3.0 from the precompiled binaries.

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• VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 3.0 On A Headless Fedora 11 Server

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: fedora, virtualbox, virtualization • Comments: 2

  VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 3.0 On A Headless Fedora 11 Server This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with Sun VirtualBox 3.0 (released on June 30, 2009) on a headless Fedora 11 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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• VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 2 On A Headless Debian Lenny Server

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

  VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 2 On A Headless Debian Lenny Server This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with Sun xVM VirtualBox 2 on a headless Debian Lenny 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 Set Up WebDAV With MySQL Authentication On Apache2 (Ubuntu 9.10)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: apache, mysql, ubuntu • Comments: 0

  How To Set Up WebDAV With MySQL Authentication On Apache2 (Ubuntu 9.10) This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with MySQL authentication (using mod_auth_mysql) on Apache2 on an Ubuntu 9.10 server. WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning and is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allow users to directly edit files on the Apache server so that they do not need to be downloaded/uploaded via FTP. Of course, WebDAV can also be used to upload and download files.

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• How To Upgrade From Fedora 12 To Fedora 13 (Desktop & Server)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: fedora • Comments: 6

  How To Upgrade From Fedora 12 To Fedora 13 (Desktop & Server) This article describes how you can upgrade your Fedora 12 system to Fedora 13. The upgrade procedure works for both desktop and server installations.

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• The Perfect Desktop - Kubuntu 10.04

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 14

  The Perfect Desktop - Kubuntu 10.04 This tutorial shows how you can set up a Kubuntu 10.04 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge. Kubuntu 10.04 is derived from Ubuntu 10.04 and uses the KDE desktop instead of the GNOME desktop.

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