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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....
Virt-manager and libvirt is core tools used for virtualization in Linux ecosystem. As a end user I am using these tools to create and run virtual machines. I am running this tools as normal...
Virtualbox is a virtualization tool. Virtualbox supports different operating system families and operating systems like Windows, Windows Server, Linux, Kali, Mint, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Solaris, OS X etc. Virtualbox is free and opensource project....
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....
Gns3 very useful tool to simulate real networks and systems. In the first days of its Gns3 was simple Cisco IOS image emulator. But recent years its development has gained momentum. This made Gns3...
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...
Hi to day we are going to give more examples about the libguestfs tools. We will look today guestmount tool. To mount a disk image with specified partition on a file.
1 2 3 | $ guestmount -a cirros-0.3.0-i386-disk.img -m /dev/sda1 test2 $ ls test2/ bin boot dev etc home init initrd.img lib linuxrc lost+found mnt old-root opt proc root run sbin sys tmp usr var vmlinuz |
Normally guestmount...
Hi today we will look disk image tools/library which is very power full. We will look for now just the tools not the library but in the future we can investigate the library in...
I have given a time slot from my last article. Now I am back and resume from where we are. I am gonna show you today a pratical and usefull tool for managing linux...
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....
