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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....
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...
Working with vmware is very easy but if you use linux you can prefer kvm so I did. Kvm is more leightweight and if you get the shortcuts it is easir then vmware workstation....
In linux you can change disk formats whatever you want with tool called qemu-img.You can install it with your package manager
1 | $ apt-get install qemu-img |
or
1 | $ yum install qemu-img |
then
1 | $ qemu-img convert -O qcow2 my_source_image.img my_destination_image.img |
If you privilege for images you can use...
I have a bunch of vms in my laptop and need regularly to change their ram size because I have only 8 GB ram. As I said before I use linux kvm for virtualization....
Qemu is 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...
Kvm is a hypervisor used by a lot of linux distributions. I am currently using it and very happy with it. I have most of the abilities paid hypervisors like HyperV, Vmware provides. Snapshots...
