Linux Tutorials on the topic “desktop”

  • Convert Physical Windows Systems Into Virtual Machines To Be Run On A Linux Desktop

    Author: Falko TimmeTags: , , Comments: 17

    Convert Physical Windows Systems Into Virtual Machines To Be Run On A Linux Desktop This article shows how you can convert a physical Windows system (XP, 2003, 2000, NT4 SP4+) into a VMware virtual machine with the free VMware Converter Starter. The resulting virtual machine can be run in the free VMware Player and VMware Server, and also in VMware Workstation and other VMware products. Vmware Converter comes in handy if you want to switch to a Linux desktop, but feel the need to run your old Windows desktop from time to time. By converting your Windows desktop into a virtual machine, you can run it under VMware Server/Player, etc. on your Linux desktop.

  • How To Install VMware Server On A Fedora Core 6 Desktop

    Author: Falko TimmeTags: , , , Comments: 5

    How To Install VMware Server On A Fedora Core 6 Desktop This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server on a Fedora Core 6 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).

  • How To Install VMware Server On A Mandriva Free 2007 Desktop

    Author: Falko TimmeTags: , , , Comments: 0

    How To Install VMware Server On A Mandriva Free 2007 Desktop This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server on a Mandriva Free 2007 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).

  • Installing VirtualBox On Ubuntu

    Author: Falko TimmeTags: , , , Comments: 9

    Installing VirtualBox On Ubuntu This tutorial shows how you can install InnoTek's VirtualBox on a Ubuntu 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 both ways.

  • How To Install VMware Server On A CentOS 5.0 Desktop

    Author: Falko TimmeTags: , , , Comments: 12

    How To Install VMware Server On A CentOS 5.0 Desktop This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server on a CentOS 5.0 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).

  • How To Install VMware Server On A Fedora 7 Desktop

    Author: Falko TimmeTags: , , , 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).

  • How To Set Up VMware Tools On Various Linux Distributions

    Author: o.meyerTags: , , , , , , , Comments: 0

    How To Set Up VMware Tools On Various Linux Distributions This document explains how to set up the VMware Tools in the following guest operating systems: Ubuntu 7.04, Fedora 7, PCLinuxOS 2007 and Debian Etch. Installing VMware Tools in your guest operating systems will help maximize performance, provide mouse synchronization and copy & paste functionality. This article also shows a way of making VMware Tools start automatically when you start a guest operating system.

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

    Author: Falko TimmeTags: , , 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.

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

    Author: Falko TimmeTags: , , , 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).

  • How To Install VMware Server (Version 1.0.6) On An Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop

    Author: Falko TimmeTags: , , , 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).