Tag: virtual machines
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...
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...
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...
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...
phpVirtualBox — Accessing VirtualBox from a Browser
This article introduces phpVirtualBox, an open-source, AJAX and PHP-based implementation of the Oracle VirtualBox user interface
CodeSport
Welcome to CodeSport! In this month's column, we feature a medley of questions covering C/C++, data structures, algorithms and operating systems.
We close the year...
Get Started with Turnkey Linux — When and Where it Makes...
This article deals with getting open source software packages up and running on bare metal/virtual platforms in a stress-free manner.
What happens when your online...
CodeSport
Welcome to CodeSport. Here are some of the solutions to questions we raised in last month's column.
My last column featured a medley of questions...
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...
Turbo Charge Python Apps with Speed, Part 1
Python's ease of use, friendliness, "batteries-included" huge standard library, plus add-on libraries, make it one of the most popular languages in the FOSS world....