Virtualization is the process of using software to create a virtual resource of something; usually, it refers to hardware virtualization, the act of running an operating system (referred to as guest) inside an host system.
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Do USB emulators exist for Linux?
I'm looking for software that lets me have many virtual USB drives on my Ubuntu installation. I want them to be seen by virtual machines in VirtualBox so I can do backup operators. I need the drives ...
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PCI passthrough with Xen
I am trying to run Windows XP in a Xen DomU virtual machine with a PCIe device, for which there are no Linux drivers, being passed through from a Debian Squeeze Dom0. My hardware supports ...
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Can QEMU/KVM+OCFS2 be configured to punch holes in sparse image files when files are deleted in the guest?
I'm using sparse raw image files for guest VMs and OCFS2 on the host (local-only, not clustered) for the reflink feature. I understand from Googling around that OCFS2 is one of the filesystems that ...
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Setup Cloudmin on Centos installed in LVM
I installed CentOS 6 with default LVM partition pattern. according to this pattern Can I use Cloudmin and store KVM Disks in LVM as Logical Volume? I think Cloudmin requires creating new logical ...
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VirtualBox appliance import locks up system
I have a Windows Vista x64 appliance that I am trying to import into the Open Source Edition of VirtualBox on Linux Mint 11 x86-64. The ovf file is 21.3 GB in size.
The problem I am having is that ...
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How to manage 2 vm using upstart?
I use an upstart script to monitor a vm and respawn it when it gets killed. I would like to simulate a failover by doing the following. Create a clone of the VM1 say VM2. When either of them is ...
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Xen is unable to use URL's to install CentOS
I can't seem to use URL's when using the netinstall for CentOS, I'm installing CentOS on a Xen VPS.
I keep getting this error in the terminal window, when I use the URL:
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Configure vmware-tools without an initrd image?
Is it possible to run vmware-tools without an initrd? I don't know why I should use an initrd and it makes my kernel compilation more complicated. I can boot into my kernel without initrd but when I ...
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Debian VPS, no loop devices present, modprobe fails
After acquiring a new virtual Debian squeeze I ran into a problem regarding loop devices.
My plan was to set up an encrypted FS in a regular file and mount it. Unfortunately I can't do that since ...
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Partitioning for Citrix Xenserver 6.1
How should look the partitioning of a 1TB hard drive for a dedicated server running Citrix Xenserver 6.1 ?
mount: / ext4 ?size?
swap swap ?size?
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How to assign an IP to a Xen VM using the xm config files?
I was just wondering how to assign an IP to a Xen VM using the xm config files?
Here is my config file currently, I don't think this is how I should be assigning IP's?
name = "test.ks"
builder = ...
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Is it possible to install KVM On A VMWare virtual machine? If so, what are the steps?
I want to understand how to use KVM in CenTOS. At the moment, all I have is a VMWare ESX 5.x server to use. Is there a way to get KVM working on a system that is running on VMWare? Essentially, a ...
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SLES/OpenSuse dropped packets Hyper-V
We are trying to use SLES 11 running under Microsoft Hyper-V, However approximately 50% of the packets are dropped. This only seems to be a problem with SLES / OpenSuse. When running e.g. Ubuntu, the ...
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Any better alternative to chroot on an OpenVZ VPS?
Are there any better alternative to chroot environment?
I'm thinking about running nginx on a jailed environment.
BTW, I'm on OpenVZ VPS, so modifying the Kernel is a no-no.
(I think that prevents ...
