Linux Tutorials on the topic “virtualization”
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How to setup an NFS Server and configure NFS Storage in Proxmox VE
Author: Muhammad Arul • Tags: centos, linux, virtualization • Comments: 7
In this tutorial, I will guide you trough the installation of an NFS server on CentOS 7, then we will add the NFS share as a storage option in the Proxmox server so that it can be used as backup space the virtual machines.
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How to Install Proxmox VE 4 on Debian 8 (Jessie)
Author: Muhammad Arul • Tags: debian, kvm, linux, server, virtualization • Comments: 8
Proxmox Virtual Environment or short Proxmox VE is an Open Source server virtualization software based on Debian Linux. In this tutorial, I will show you the installation of Proxmox on a server that runs a minimal Debian 8 installation, e.g. in a datacenter.
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How to setup virtual containers with LXC and quota support on Debian 8
Author: Croydon • Tags: debian, linux, virtualization • Comments: 3
Quota support is an often requested feature in lxc. Linux filesystem quota is required when you want to give multiple users access to a container and want to control that one user is not using all the disk space. Quota is also required for web hosting servers, e.g. with ISPConfig 3, for the same reason: one website shall not be able to fill up the whole disk. This howto shows you, how you can use lxc with hard disk quota using qemu nbd with a qcow image file on Debian 8.
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Microsoft Azure Series - Creating a Linux virtual machine from custom image
Author: Patrik Habdak • Tags: ispconfig, linux, ubuntu, virtualization • Comments: 2
In the first tutorial, we have learned how to deploy a new virtual machine from default Azure images. In this tutorial, we are going to find out how we can use our existing virtual machine to duplicate it or save as image for further usage.
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How to use Docker in a practical way (part 1 - Introduction)
Author: Bill Toulas • Tags: centos, debian, fedora, opensuse, suse, ubuntu, virtualization • Comments: 7
It is not an uncommon situation, for early adopters of newly introduced concepts and technologies, to be totally confused when these can fundamentally change the ways of developing and delivering services. Especially when everybody talks about something like Docker, and how awesome and game changing it is. This confusion happens when we try things early on and rushing straight to testing them without grasping the whole concept and background of this newly introduced technology.
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Run Windows applications on Linux with Crossover 15
Author: Bill Toulas • Tags: centos, commercial, debian, desktop, linux, opensuse, suse, ubuntu, virtualization • Comments: 0
Codeweavers has released a new major version of Crossover, the popular Microsoft Windows compatibility layer which is now based on Wine 1.8. The software is commercial and it costs around $40, but there is also a two-week trial version which is fully functional and can be downloaded for free. For this quick guide, I will be using the latter to show how you can install, set up, and run Windows executables with Crossover 15.
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Docker: Installation and Basic usage on Ubuntu 15.04
Author: Muhammad Arul • Tags: ubuntu, virtualization • Comments: 5
Docker is an open-source project that provides an open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, package, and run applications anywhere as a lightweight container. This tutorial shows the installation of Docker on Ubuntu 15.04 and the first steps to get started with Docker container management.
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How to get Oracle Virtual Box 5.0 installed on (Ubuntu) Linux
Author: Bill Toulas • Tags: linux, ubuntu, virtualbox, virtualization • Comments: 0
Oracle's Virtual Box is one of the easiest to use virtual machines that run under Linux. Although we Linux users have reasons not to use Oracle's products, the particular piece of software is maybe the best choice we can make in that area and at least it's open source. If you want to use other free software alternatives to Oracle's VM, you can check VMware Workstation, QEMU, or GNOME Boxes (currently works only on Fedora).
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How to install KVM on Ubuntu 14.04
Author: Gurujyot_singh • Tags: linux, ubuntu, virtualization • Comments: 10
KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a virtualization extension for the Linux Kernel. There are many Operating systems that are supported by KVM, which include Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows and others. This tutorial explains the installation of KVM on an Ubuntu 14.04 Desktop and how to create a Ubuntu guest VM.
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How to monitor free disk space at Amazon EC2 with Cloud Watch
Author: Matteo Temporini • Tags: cloud, debian, linux, ubuntu, virtualization • Comments: 4
Amazon AWS is a great platform to develop a Cloud Infrastrucutre, it supposedly covers every aspect that is needed for a whole IT infrastructure and provides also a nice monitoring tool named Cloud Watch. Today I will show you how to monitor free disk space with Cloud watch.