VMWare (Server, Player, ESX), VirtualBox, KVM/QEMU are just a few of the virtualization technologies you can use if you need to run a generic virtual machine. Each has strong and weak points, each adds some overhead when running the virtual machine, each can prove useful in a given scenario. I’ve used more or less extensively all of them (testing or in daily work). I’ve tested also linux specific virtualizations like XEN or OpenVZ but their drawbacks made me somewhat reluctant in using them. But recently I’ve come over Linux Containers (LXC), a lightweight virtualization that lets you isolate processes and resources without using a full virtual machine. Read the rest of this entry »
Posts Tagged Linux
LXC with Gentoo Linux
Jun 3
In today’s world when the IPv4 addresses are a luxury and IPv6 is not wide deployed (yet) more and more servers are running behind NAT-ed addresses. To do remote management on these servers you connect to them using SSH through some port forwarding done on the border gateway. If you need to monitor these servers there are a few alternatives:
- more ports forwarded from the gateway
- use a vpn to connect to the remote network
- use TCP port forwarding through the SSH connection
This post will show how you can obtain more from the existing SSH connection to the remote system.
A problem that many web developers face when they switch from Microsoft Windows to an open source operating system (Ubuntu, Fedora, Archlinux, OpenSUSE, Mandriva, Debian, BSD etc.) is the imposibility of running tests on Internet Explorer, since IE is officially suported only on Windows. Read the rest of this entry »
Canonical is holding their word when it comes on the strict release schedule of Ubuntu releases. Ubuntu 9.10, with the codename Karmic Koala, has been released yesterday 29 October, a week after the release of Microsoft’s Windows 7. Read the rest of this entry »
The Linux version of our File Tracking Client application is now available for download from the project’s website or from its SourceForge repository.
So, now there are three application downloads available:
- A Demo version for Windows platform
- A Demo version for Linux platform
- The production version that runs both on Windows and Linux (This requires the a server download also)
Check out the SourceForge repository for all of them.
If you need to install the WSF/PHP extension on a SUSE Linux with GCC 4.1.2 (pretty old) and receive some strange errors with missing libraries (even if you think / see they are there and even if you followed a la lettre the documentation) you may try the following approach: Read the rest of this entry »
Linux and gaming
Jul 28
A new article on micahville blog presents a list of 17 games who do not need WINE, can be open or closed source, and of course, run on Linux. The games are (in no particular order): Read the rest of this entry »
