Linux Tutorials on the topic “virtualization”

• 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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• Installing And Using OpenVZ On Ubuntu 8.10

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: openvz, ubuntu, virtualization • Comments: 7

  Installing And Using OpenVZ On Ubuntu 8.10 In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare an Ubuntu 8.10 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 2 On A Mandriva 2009.0 Desktop

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

  How To Install VMware Server 2 On A Mandriva 2009.0 Desktop This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server 2 on a Mandriva 2009.0 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).

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• VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 2.0 On A Headless CentOS 5.2 Server

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

  VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 2.0 On A Headless CentOS 5.2 Server This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0 on a headless CentOS 5.2 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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• Clone/Back Up/Restore OpenVZ VMs With vzdump

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

  Clone/Back Up/Restore OpenVZ VMs With vzdump vzdump is a backup and restore utility for OpenVZ VMs. This tutorial shows how you can use it to clone/back up/restore virtual machines with vzdump.

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• How To Install VMware Server 2 On Ubuntu 8.10

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, ubuntu, virtualization, vmware • Comments: 35

  How To Install VMware Server 2 On Ubuntu 8.10 This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server 2 on an Ubuntu 8.10 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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• Managing OpenVZ With The Vtonf Control Panel On CentOS 5.2

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: centos, control panels, openvz, virtualization • Comments: 3

  Managing OpenVZ With The Vtonf Control Panel On CentOS 5.2 Vtonf is a free web-based control panel (released under the GPL license) for managing virtual private servers (VPS) based on OpenVZ. It makes it very easy to create and manage OpenVZ VMs even for people with little technical knowledge. Right now, Vtonf is available only for RedHat, Fedora, and CentOS (support for Debian is planned), therefore I describe its installation and usage on a CentOS 5.2 server.

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• Installing VirtualBox 2.0 On Mandriva 2009.0

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: desktop, mandriva, virtualbox, virtualization • Comments: 0

  Installing VirtualBox 2.0 On Mandriva 2009.0 This tutorial shows how you can install Sun xVM VirtualBox on a Mandriva 2009.0 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 from the precompiled binaries.

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• Installing VirtualBox 2.0 On An Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop

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

  Installing VirtualBox 2.0 On An Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop This tutorial shows how you can install Sun xVM VirtualBox on an Ubuntu 8.10 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 from the precompiled binaries.

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