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What Is KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) In Linux?

What Is KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) In Linux?

Virtualization is a hot area in Computing. There is a different type of virtualization solutions and techniques used in a different environment and operating systems. KVM or Kernel-based Virtual Machine is a virtualization technology used in Linux kernel and distributions. Linux KVM can be only used in Linux kernel and distribution because of its design … Read more

How To Install VMware Tools To The Linux Debian, Ubuntu, Kali, Mint, Fedora, CentOS, RHEL Distributions

VMware is one of the best virtualization company. Especially in the desktop based virtualization it provides far more features than its competitors. VMware provides some tools to make virtualization experience more smooth. These tools are called VMware Tools. In this tutorial we will look how to install these tools into Linux distributions like Debian, Ubuntu, … Read more

How To Install Virtualbox Into Windows?

Virtualbox is virtualization tool used to create virtual machines. Virtual machines can be cloned, created, deleted without affecting any external source in the host system.  In this tutorial we will look how to install Virtualbox virtualization software in Windows operating systems. Download VirtualBox We will download Virtualbox from following link. http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.1.18/VirtualBox-5.1.18-114002-Win.exe Virtualbox have different versions … Read more

Virt Install Tool For Virtualization With KVM and Qemu For Linux

Virtualization and cloud computing is future of the IT. There are a lot of tools and architectures to make virtual the systems. Every big vendor have their original or clone virtualization technology or ecosystem. Linux provides KVM, Qemu for opensource, fast virtualization. Open source cloud ecosystem Openstack is mainly positioned on KVM,Libvirt and Qemu. In … Read more

Linux Qemu-img Command Tutorial With Examples to Create, Change, Shrink Disk Images

KVM (Kernel Virtualization Module) is an open source, popular and efficient virtualization technology provided by Linux kernel. Virtualization creates virtual ram, devices, disks, CPU’s, networks etc. Qemu is the user space tool used to provide these to the kernel level virtualization tool KVM. Disk is one of the most important device in the virtual systems. … Read more

How To Clone VM with Libguestfs?

How To Clone VM with Libguestfs?

Hi, today we will look disk image tools/library which is very powerful. We will look for now just the tools, not the library but in the future, we can investigate the library in c or python too. With the era of cloud computing things to be done very fast, practical and precise way. In the … Read more

Linux KVM/Qemu Virt-Customize Tutorial

Linux KVM/Qemu Virt-Customize Tutorial

I am gonna show you today a practical and useful tool for managing Linux virtual machines and disks. With virtualization, people start to use a lot of VMS in their personal or corporate PC’s. But managing them is difficult. I faced these difficulties too. So I search for a tool helps me especially in updates. … Read more

QEMU Tutorial with Examples

QEMU Tutorial with Examples

Qemu is a very old virtualization technology used to virtualize system components and run operating systems on it. Before KVM and XEN QEMU was used heavily but it can not race with VMWARE or VIRTUAL PC. But with the KVM Qemu get superfast speed for computing by using hardware-based virtualization. QEMU acts as a hardware … Read more

Linux KVM Libvirt Tutorial

Hi today we are gonna look for managing vms especially in Linux with libvirt. Libvirt is a library and tools to manage vms. Lbivirt development is supported by Red hat and defacto tool in Linux world. In Linux Kvm/qemu is generally used for virtuulization but libvirt supports Xen, Virtualbox, Vmware, Hyperv too. To install and … Read more

How To Get CPU (Central Processing Unit) Info and Number of CPU’s In Linux?

CPU is central part of the computer systems.  They provide all logic and computation power to the operating system that runs on them. In general we look the frequency and brand of the CPU like i5,i7. There are very different features in detail in CPU’s. There are different commands to get CPU’s information like flags, … Read more