Category Archives: Virtual Machines

Discussions on Virtual Machines and VM software.

OpenStack experiences so far

Posted on May 5, 2013 by mark

I have been getting interested in openstack. I don’t have the hardware to run a full openstack environment, so I have been using the devstack development environment (available from devstack.org in a Ubuntu virtual machine. Sooo… memory-wise I have a … Continue reading →

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Playing with VMs – clonezilla under QEMU

Posted on September 8, 2010 by mark

First off, let me make it clear I am running QEMU non-accelerated here, I don’t have a CPU that supports VT-X so qemu-kvm won’t work for me. And before anybody says VirtualBox is a lot faster than QEMU in a … Continue reading →

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So many VM’s, so little time – hercules

Posted on April 28, 2008 by mark

As well as the normal intel VM engines I mentioned earlier (although qemu also does sparc and powerpc) there is one other emulator that does need a mention. This is the hercules emulator.This is the emulator for mainframe geeks, which … Continue reading →

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QEMU and VDE

Posted on March 9, 2008 by mark

A while ago I finally got around to fully networking all my QEMU VM ‘s ,  using VDE (Virtual Distributed Ethernet) which is  brilliant, 5 VMs on a 10.2 .0 network fully accessable from my 169 network and they can … Continue reading →

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Comparison of Virtual Machines I have tried

Posted on August 16, 2007 by mark

I have spent some time playing with Virtual Machines, I got interested in these way back when UML (User Mode Linux) was a big thing. That broke for me when I went from Mandrake to Fedora so that is one … Continue reading →

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