KVM, the Linux kernel hypervisor, is the up-and-coming enterprise virtualization contender. It’s lean, mean, fast, and runs unmodified guest operating systems with ease. In this crash course we’ll ...

Virtualization has become a cornerstone of modern computing, offering a myriad of benefits from cost savings to improved efficiency and scalability. Among the myriad of options available for server ...

If you want to install OpenStack, but don’t want to have to dedicate multiple machines for the project, here’s how to do that with a single Ubuntu Server virtual machine. OpenStack has become the de ...

The combination of free open source and virtual machines is hard to beat; here are some of the handiest virtual appliances Virtual appliances are great for the same reasons physical appliances took ...

Microsoft Hyper-V is continuously improving its support for Linux distributions, but some occasional manual tweaking is necessary to accomplish tasks. Take, for example, an installation of Ubuntu in a ...

VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is a professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software.