I just ordered a new 8x core Xeon machine for doing scientific computing under linux. I'd like to run Windows Server 2008 but virtualize Ubuntu sessions since I also have some instrumentation work to ...

You don't have to look far in tech news to see that virtualization has become a big deal. After all, computers continue to become faster and more powerful, and as they do, the services that run on ...

If you want to install OpenStack, but don’t want to have to dedicate multiple machines for the project, here’s how to do that with a single Ubuntu Server virtual machine. OpenStack has become the de ...

If there’s one technology that can greatly improve computing environments of any size, it’s virtualization. By using a single physical server to run many virtual servers, you can decrease operational ...

Not every distro is suited for every job.

It should bootup and run fine. You might have to tell Xorg to use the vmware driver instead of whatever you're using now but the rest should be fine. After that you ...

With virtualisation becoming a mainstream technology, it’s becoming reasonable that Linux distros like Ubuntu will not always require a dedicated computer but instead be contained within a virtualised ...