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FAQ Updates – July/16/2010

Vivek Gite — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:40:57 +0000

I'm still working on getting my rss feed mess which bombarded your feed reader and inbox two days ago. Meanwhile, our FAQ section is updated in last few days with new howtos (if you want FAQ updates just follow us on twitter or identi.ca):

VMWare Remote Console Plug-in Unrecoverable Error: (mks)

Vivek Gite — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:43:31 +0000

I'm having some weird problem with Firefox 3.0.4 under Ubuntu Linux. My test server runs inside VMWare server version 2.0. It was working fine with my Laptop. But with my desktop it started to dump errors for me. when I try to open the console of a virtual machine I have following error:

Top 10 Linux Virtualization Software

Vivek Gite — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:00:59 +0000

Virtualization is the latest buzz word. You may wonder computers are getting cheaper every day, why should I care and why should I use virtualization? Virtualization is a broad term that refers to the abstraction of computer resources such as:

Platform Virtualization
Resource Virtualization
Storage Virtualization
Network Virtualization
Desktop Virtualization

This article describes why you need virtualization and list commonly used FOSS and proprietary Linux virtualization software.

How To Convert From a VMware Image To Virtualbox Image

Vivek Gite — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:24:43 +0000

VirtualBox is a virtual emulator like VMWare workstation. It has many of the features VMWare has, as well as some of its own.

I really like new Opensource VirtualBox from Sun. It is light on resources. Here is a quick tip - you can convert a VMware virtual machine (image) to a VirtualBox machine (image) using qemu-img utility, without reinstalling the GUEST operating system

Linux VMWare Server 2: Start / Stop VMs From a Shell Prompt

Vivek Gite — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:02:41 +0000

You can easily start / stop / pause or take a snapshot from a shell prompt under a Linux / Windows host using vmrun command. This is useful if you do not want to run web interface for starting and/or stopping VMs.

RedHat Bought Qumranet's Virtualization including its KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine)

Vivek Gite — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:59:32 +0000

Red Hat paid approximately $107 million in cash for Qumranet, a privately held company. Now, Red Hat positioned to deliver comprehensive, reliable and open virtualization to Linux and Windows servers and desktops.

Download of the day: Oracle VM

Vivek Gite — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:51:24 +0000

Virtualization is the process of abstracting computing resources such that multiple operating system and application images can share a single physical server, bringing significant cost-of-ownership and manageability benefits. Through its Oracle VM product, Oracle offers scalable, low-cost server virtualization for heterogeneous applications. Oracle VM is free server virtualization software that fully supports both Oracle and [...]

How to: Install and Setup XEN Virtualization Software on CentOS Linux 5

Vivek Gite — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:57:34 +0000

Xen is a free open source software virtual machine monitor for Intel / PowerPC architectures. It is software that runs on a host operating system and allows several guest operating systems to be run on top of the host on the same computer hardware at the same time (just like VMWare software). Luckily Installing and managing XEN is quite easy under CentOS 5 Linux.

Connect VMWARE Server using Webbased Management Interface at 8333 port

Vivek Gite — Tue, 01 May 2007 16:53:17 +0000

The VMware Server Web-based management interface is installed on your VMware Server system to enable control from a Web browser. You can download this package from VMWare site itself and install the same. Activities you can perform includes: => Connecting to a Virtual Machine with the VMware Server Console => Using the Virtual Machine Menu [...]