Virtualization Tutorials
In the first part of this article I took you through the installation of Virtual PC, in this article I will guide you through the configuration of Microsoft's virtual PC. The article will focus on how virtual PC should be configured so that your system functions effectively and makes use of the hardware efficiently.
The introduction of new operating systems, new applications and even patches or fixes on your production network can pose its own kind of threat, if you don't know what the "unintended consequences" will be. Best practice is to first set up a test environment that emulates your production environment and run the new software there. Buying a lot of machines to do this can be prohibitively expensive, so many network administrators have turned to virtual machine software. In this article, we take a look at what's different in VPC and how to install and use it.
- Application Virtualization with VMware ThinApp
- What is Application Virtualization? How is it different from Desktop or Server Virtualization? How does VMware's ThinApp fit into the picture? And, finally, how do you use ThinApp? Find out all this and more in David David’s article!
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- Video: Using Sun VirtualBox
- This video explains how to use Sun VirtualBox for desktop virtualization.
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Virtualization of an Operating System Tutorial Part 2 - Codecall.net Video
An Overview of Virtualization Techniques
Guest OS virtualization is perhaps the easiest concept to understand. In this scenario the physical host computer system runs a standard unmodified operating system such as Windows, Linux, Unix or MacOS X. Running on this operating system is a virtualization application which executes in much the same way as any other application such as a word processor or spreadsheet would run on the system.
