Funny Mythness
About Linux desktops in a business environment and virtual machines… best appreciated by experienced Linux users. There are many myths related to Linux in a business environment. For me, the most pervasive and…
Virtualisation Face-off: Qemu, VirtualBox, VMware Player and Parallels Workstation
In this article, we take a look at four of the most well known and commonly used virtualisation software for Linux. When it comes to virtualisation, Linux unarguably has more prowess and offers…
Virtual Machines For Abstraction: The Dalvik VM
With the rise of heterogeneous systems, there is a requirement for a scalable software system that is cost-effective and maintenance-free. Virtual machines (VMs) provide abstraction from the heterogeneity, and present a low-cost, scalable…
Debian 6.0 ‘Squeeze’: What’s New?
With its extremely long release cycle (this one took two years), Debian 6.0 Squeeze was rolled out on February 6th, amidst jokes like, “See you in 12 months’ time,” and “So they finally…
KGDB with VirtualBox: Debug a Live Kernel
Debugging an application live has always been easy for application developers, but debugging a live kernel has never been a simple option for kernel developers — it involves multiple machines with serial connections….
phpVirtualBox — Accessing VirtualBox from a Browser
This article introduces phpVirtualBox, an open-source, AJAX and PHP-based implementation of the Oracle VirtualBox user interface
Playing with User-mode Linux
This article gives you hands-on experience in setting up a User-Mode Linux (UML) kernel and getting it up on a running Linux OS. We see how to share files between the host Linux…







