New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. Installing And Using OpenVZ On Ubuntu 10.04 Installing And Using OpenVZ On Ubuntu 10.04 In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare an Ubuntu 10.04 server for OpenVZ. With OpenVZ you can create multiple Virtual Private Servers (VPS) on the same hardware, similar to Xen and the Linux [...]
New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. VMware Server 2.0.2-x On Ubuntu Server 10.04 With VMware Remote Console Plug-in VMware Server 2.0.2-x On Ubuntu Server 10.04 With VMware Remote Console Plug-in Today I will tell you how to set up a new Ubuntu 10.04 server which runs VMware server 2.0.2-x and the VMware Remote Console Plug-in. [...]
New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. Virtualization With KVM On A Fedora 13 Server Virtualization With KVM On A Fedora 13 Server This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on a Fedora 13 server. I will show how to create image-based virtual machines and also virtual [...]
New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. 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 [...]
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…. Link to the original site
New tutorial added to HowtoMatrix database. 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 Read more at HowtoForge
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]