Xen - hypervisor for the masses. |
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There is something wonderful about being able to consolidate all your servers into the least amount of hardware as possible. Building Xen clusters means reliability and easy scaling (if the software is written correctly of course). Hardware virtualization has been around for a long time. The new hypervisors are exceptionally well at what they do because they utilize the latest hardware virtualization features available. Xen is open source and provides the ability to run many open and closed operating systems at the same time. Woo hoo. Go open source. Xen Web referencesXen wikipedia entry Offical Xen project A moment of Xen: Virtualize Linux to test your apps XenVirtualMachine/XenOnUbuntuEdgy XEN on feisty running Windows XP VMware Makes Move Toward Virtualization As Hosted Service Fun with virtualization Pinguin's HQ - has xmount (convert on-the-fly between multiple input and output harddisk image types) and OpenGates (fix XP Error code 0x0000007B when trying to boot on new hardware). Xen hosting providersTekTonic Unmanaged and Managed Virtual Private Servers (VPS)GrokThis.net Hosting vpsFarm Linode.com - Xen VPS Hosting Slicehost - VPS Hosting Virtual machines VHDNot Xen, but MS's version....Download details: Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Download details: Windows Server 2008 Evaluation VHD Images (for VS2005) Virtual PC Guy's WebLog : Quick Fixed VHD Creation Tool - nice blog. Grand Stream Dreams: WIM tool enhancements and Fiddling with VHD’s Disk2vhd - is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoft’s Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). The difference between Disk2vhd and other physical-to-virtual tools is that you can run Disk2vhd on a system that’s online. VirtualBoxVirtualBox - VirtualBox - a free x86 virtual pc. mac,windows,linux.Boot a USB Flash Drive in VirtualBox | USB Pen Drive Linux Somewhat Portable VirtualBox | Input Jam - primative compared to portable-virtualbox, but still interesting. . : Portable-VirtualBox : . VServerLinux-VServer - Linux-VServer provides virtualization for GNU/Linux systems. This is accomplished by kernel level isolation. It allows to run multiple virtual units at once. Those units are sufficiently isolated to guarantee the required security, but utilize available resources efficiently, as they run on the same kernel.Installation on Debian - Linux-VServer OpenVZOpenVZManaging OpenVZ Instance Descriptions « Lâmôlabs Troubleshooting a Restore of an OpenVZ Image from one Host Node to Another « Lâmôlabs Howto Stop Clock Drift Issues on a CentOS 5 OpenVZ Host Node « Lâmôlabs Increasing RAM in a OpenVZ Virtual Environment « Lâmôlabs Getting Autofs and OpenVZ to Play Nice on CentOS 5 « Lâmôlabs Backing Up OpenVZ « Lâmôlabs More Info About OpenVZ and Memory « Lâmôlabs QEMUAbout - QEMU - QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer.QEMU Emulator User Documentation Fun with virtualization: Running Windows 2003 r2 x64 on Qemu 0.9.0 QEMU, Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) + libvirt qemu x64 guest on x64 hostSo just starting qemu, you'll find you're running i686. If you want to run x64 on x64 emulation, try qemu-system-x86_64.# boot a usb drive.
qemu-system-x86_64 -hda /dev/sdd
virt-managerVirtual Machine ManagerTest Drive an Ubuntu ISO in a Virtual Machine in Launchpad - makes it very easy to download and run the latest daily Ubuntu development snapshot in a virtual machine. Actually, it can be configured to download and run any URL-access ISO in a virtual machine. VMWarePlanetVM - covers other things, but a lot of great VMWare content.Using linux vmfs-tools package to access virtual machines | PlanetVM |
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