Linux Tutorials on the topic “virtualization”

• Virtualization With KVM On A CentOS 6.3 Server

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: centos, kvm, virtualization • Comments: 5

  Virtualization With KVM On A CentOS 6.3 Server This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on a CentOS 6.3 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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• Managing A Headless VirtualBox Installation With phpvirtualbox On nginx (Ubuntu 12.04)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: virtualization, ubuntu, virtualbox, web server, nginx • Comments: 5

  Managing A Headless VirtualBox Installation With phpvirtualbox On nginx (Ubuntu 12.04) phpvirtualbox is a web-based VirtualBox front-end written in PHP that allows you to access and control remote VirtualBox instances. It tries to resemble the VirtualBox GUI as much as possible to make work with it as easy as possible. It is a nice replacement for the VirtualBox GUI if you run VirtualBox in headless servers. This tutorial explains how to install phpvirtualbox with nginx on an Ubuntu 12.04 server to manage a locally installed, headless VirtualBox.

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• Managing A Headless VirtualBox Installation With phpvirtualbox (Fedora 17)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: fedora, virtualbox, virtualization • Comments: 0

  Managing A Headless VirtualBox Installation With phpvirtualbox (Fedora 17) phpvirtualbox is a web-based VirtualBox front-end written in PHP that allows you to access and control remote VirtualBox instances. It tries to resemble the VirtualBox GUI as much as possible to make work with it as easy as possible. It is a nice replacement for the VirtualBox GUI if you run VirtualBox on headless servers. This tutorial explains how to install phpvirtualbox on a Fedora 17 server to manage a locally installed, headless VirtualBox.

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• VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.1 On A Headless Fedora 17 Server

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: fedora, virtualbox, virtualization • Comments: 0

  VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.1 On A Headless Fedora 17 Server This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with VirtualBox 4.1 on a headless Fedora 17 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 And Using OpenVZ On CentOS 6.3

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

  Installing And Using OpenVZ On CentOS 6.3 In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare a CentOS 6.3 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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• Managing A Headless VirtualBox Installation With phpvirtualbox (OpenSUSE 12.1)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: suse, virtualbox, virtualization • Comments: 0

  Managing A Headless VirtualBox Installation With phpvirtualbox (OpenSUSE 12.1) phpvirtualbox is a web-based VirtualBox front-end written in PHP that allows you to access and control remote VirtualBox instances. It tries to resemble the VirtualBox GUI as much as possible to make work with it as easy as possible. It is a nice replacement for the VirtualBox GUI if you run VirtualBox on headless servers. This tutorial explains how to install phpvirtualbox on an OpenSUSE 12.1 server to manage a locally installed, headless VirtualBox.

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• VirtualBox: Creating Backups & Clones Of Running Virtual Machines (No Downtime) With LVM Snapshots

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

  VirtualBox: Creating Backups & Clones Of Running Virtual Machines (No Downtime) With LVM Snapshots If you use LVM volumes for your VirtualBox VMs, you can create backups and clones of a running VM without shutting it down. This tutorial shows just that: using LVM snapshots to create backups and clones of running VirtualBox VMs without downtime.

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• Using RAW Devices In VirtualBox VMs

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

  Using RAW Devices In VirtualBox VMs Usually, VirtualBox creates its virtual machines in disk images (.vdi, .vmdk, etc.). This tutorial explains how you can use RAW devices from the host (partitions, LVM volumes, etc.) and create a VirtualBox VM in it. I will also explain how to mount a RAW device in an existing VM.

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• OpenVZ: Mounting Host Devices/Partitions/Directories In A Container With Bind Mounts (Debian/Ubuntu)

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

  OpenVZ: Mounting Host Devices/Partitions/Directories In A Container With Bind Mounts (Debian/Ubuntu) Sometimes you are in a situation where you need to mount a hard drive, partiiton or directory from the OpenVZ host inside an OpenVZ container - for example, you add a fast SSD to the host and want to put your container's MySQL databases on it to make MySQL faster. This tutorial explains how you can mount host devices/partitions/directories in an OpenVZ container with bind mounts.

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• VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.1 On A Headless Ubuntu 12.04 Server

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: ubuntu, virtualbox, virtualization • Comments: 5

  VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.1 On A Headless Ubuntu 12.04 Server This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with VirtualBox 4.1 on a headless Ubuntu 12.04 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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