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Step by Step install guide for openSUSE 11.1 Beta 4 with GNOME

Posted by admin on 4th November 2008

openSUSE 11.1 Beta 4 is now relased and available for download as Live CDs for KDE4 and GNOME Desktops. The DVD is available only via Bit Torrtents. Lets get started with installing openSUSE 11.1 Beta 4 with KDE4 deaktop environment. The installation is from the Live CD downloadable from here. I’ve choosen to use a 32-bit CD for the installation.
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HowTo: Install configure KVM Virtualization & run Guest OSes in openSUSE

Posted by admin on 30th September 2008

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a Linux kernel virtualization infrastructure. KVM is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions Intel VT (vmx) or AMD-V (svm). It consists of a loadable kernel module, kvm.ko, that provides the core virtualization infrastructure and a processor specific module, kvm-intel.ko or kvm-amd.ko. KVM also requires a modified QEMU although work is underway to get the required changes upstream.

KVM is a free opensource virtualization software and is included in Linux Kernel version 2.6.20 and above. Using KVM, one can run multiple virtual machines running unmodified Linux or Windows images. Each virtual machine has private virtualized hardware: a network card, disk, graphics adapter, etc.

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Install and Configure VMWare Server virtualization in openSUSE

Posted by admin on 10th August 2008


VMware Server is a free virtualization product for Windows and Linux servers. VMware Server is a robust yet easy to use server virtualization product and is based on proven virtualization technology. VMware can run on any standard x86 hardware and can support 64-bit guest operating systems including Windows Linux and Sun Solaris. VMware server can support two-processor Virtual SMP, enabling a single virtual machine to span multiple physical processors.

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Virtual Box – How to Install & Configure in openSUSE

Posted by admin on 9th August 2008


VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

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How to install & configure Xen Virtualization in openSUSE 11.0

Posted by admin on 30th July 2008


Virtualization cannot be that simpler than in openSUSE 11.0. In openSUSE 11.0, Xen Virtualization ins pre-built and all it takes is a few clicks away from up and running with Virtualization in no time. Xen is a virtual machine monitor for x86 that supports execution of multiple guest operating systems with unprecedented levels of performance and resource isolation. This package contains the Xen Hypervisor.

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