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Ubuntu 8.10 Server Edition Focuses On Virtualization
Ubuntu Linux distribution organization Canonical flipped the switch on free public downloads of Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop Edition and Ubuntu 8.10 Server Edition, both of which will be supported for 18 months.
31Oct2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedVirtualization Workloads, a comparative study in Open Source environments
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At the Ottawa Linux Symposium, Benoit de Lingeris and his team from Revolution Linux presented their paper “Virtualization of Linux Server, a comparative study“, mostly the work of Fernando L. Camargos in pursuit of his Masters degree in Computer Science.
They looked at VirtualBox, Xen, KVM, OpenVZ, LinuxVServer and KQemu in an 64bit mode for [...]
How to … spend your weekend
Over at UbuntuGeek.com is a fresh HOWTO on installing VirtualBox 1.6 in an Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron setup, including USB Support. Over at the other side of the Linux Distribution Spectrum, Falko Timme at How to Forge documents how to install and use OpenVZ on Centos 5.2.
1Aug2008 | Kris Buytaert | 0 comments | ContinuedVirtual Bridges Upgrades Win4Lin Desktop, Releases Win4Solaris Desktop 5
Virtual Bridges announced today the release of a major upgrade to its Win4Lin Desktop product and a specially priced edition for Ubuntu users. Version 5 of its desktop virtualization system features performance increases that it claims beat the likes of VMware Workstation and other competitors in the growing desktop virtualization market.
6Jun2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedThoughtpolice And Its Library Of VMware Images
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We just stumbled upon Thoughtpolice, a sys-admin’s effort to aggregate all VMware images for Linux (Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS) and FreeBSD, as well as a number of Fedora packages.
“Thoughtpolice was born because I kept needing to use the same VMware images over and over again. A Google search later, and I had found no place [...]
Ubuntu Releases “Hardy Heron”, OS Version 8.04 In Beta
After four Alpha releases, Ubuntu has now released version 8.04 of the popular Operating System, code-named “Hardy Heron”. Apart from the boat load of new features, KVM is now officially maintained within the kernel. Also, libvirt and virt-manager have been integrated in Ubuntu.
21Mar2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | ContinuedTechtrob: Virtualization in Linux - Four Software Programs Reviewed
Techtrob.com analyzed four software choices for linux driven virtualization platforms, now that Canonical completely supports the use of Parallels software in Ubuntu Linux. The article compares four virtualization products available for Ubuntu Linux: the free, open source x86 emulator Qemu; the closed-but-free versions of VirtualBox and VMware-Server, and the commercial Parallels Workstation.
25Feb2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | ContinuedUbuntu To Adopt KVM As Primary Virtualization Platform
Ubuntu is the first Linux distribution to choose KVM over Xen as its virtualization solution.
14Feb2008 | Kris Buytaert | 2 comments | Continued
