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openSuse
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VBoxHeadless – Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 3.1.x On A Headless OpenSUSE 11.2 Server
This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with Sun VirtualBox 3.1.x
on a headless OpenSUSE 11.2 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI
to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop
environment. [...]
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Virtualization
New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database.
How to install Google Chrome OS on VirtualBox
A few days ago Google released Chrome OS (content/view/175/26/) , a public preview of its upcoming Operating System. Chrome OS is an open source project and it’s available for download….
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Howto Install Vmware Tools in Ubuntu Jaunty/Intrepid/Hardy
VMware Tools is a suite of utilities that enhances the performance of the virtual machine’s guest operating system and improves management of the virtual machine.Installing VMware Tools in the guest operating system is vital. Although the guest operating system can run without VMware Tools, [...]
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Virtualization
New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database.
Converting VMware Images to VirtualBox – A Simple Method
When I need to run a Windows based application on my trusty Ubuntu Hardy box, I don’t use Wine. Don’t get me wrong, it’s just that I don’t want to have to manage the Wine environment and prefer to have Windows and [...]
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Virtualization,
openSuse
New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database.
Make sure proper permissions stay set for VirtualBox in OpenSuse 11.1
The problem:
running the following:
$: /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox
gives you this following:
$: /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox
/usr/bin/VirtualBox: line 1: /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox: Permission denied.
The reason:
If SuSEconfig runs it resets the permissions of the files defined in /etc/permissions*.
The solution:
sudo chmod o+x /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox
Open the file > /etc/permissions.easy < with vi, goto the [...]
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Virtualization,
openSuse
The following will install and configure DRBD, OpenAIS, Pacemaker and Xen
on OpenSUSE 11.1 to provide highly-available virtual machines. This setup does
not utilize Xen’s live migration capabilities. Instead, VMs will be started
on the secondary node as soon as failure of the primary is detected. Xen
virtual disk images are replicated between nodes using DRBD and all services
on [...]
This guide will help you to create gentoo paravirtualized xen guest under Debian Lenny. Since Gentoo 2008.0 release is deprecated, so we will use current gentoo stage.
Base
dd if=/dev/zero of=gentoo.img count=4096 bs=1M
mkfs.ext3 gentoo.img
mount -o loop gentoo /mnt/gentoo
Gentoo Stage
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Fedora,
Virtualization
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 [...]
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 [...]
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Ubuntu,
Virtualization
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 [...]
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 [...]
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Virtualization
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 [...]
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Virtualization
When I need to run a Windows based application on my trusty Ubuntu Hardy box, I don’t use Wine. Don’t get me wrong, it’s just that I don’t want to have to manage the Wine environment and prefer to have Windows and it’s associated applications tucked away in it’s own virtual system. This way if
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Fedora,
Virtualization
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 [...]
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Ubuntu,
Virtualization
This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install
VMware Server 2 on an Ubuntu 9.04 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 [...]