Sun VirtualBox Breaks Five Million Download Mark
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008Sun VirtualBox Breaks Five Million Download Mark
VirtualBox is available for Solaris, Linux, Mac OS X and another host OS and supports practically any x86 based guest OS !
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OpenVZ vs Xen
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008VPSLink have a useful page comparing their OpenVZ and Xen Hosting Platforms with some great graphics showing where the virtualisation layers are in each solution !
VMware Server and top !
Friday, April 18th, 2008Have you ever wondered which VM is which when looking at top
top - 11:58:00 up 56 days, 1:08, 1 user, load average: 0.57, 0.59, 0.96 Tasks: 88 total, 2 running, 86 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 1.8%us, 12.1%sy, 0.0%ni, 86.1%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 1553968k total, 1517840k used, 36128k free, 4500k buffers Swap: 2040244k total, 107652k used, 1932592k free, 1282832k cachedPID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 12387 user 5 -10 793m 533m 479m S 1.4 35.1 83:56.98 vmware-vmx 12310 user 5 -10 743m 510m 497m S 8.9 33.7 277:42.39 vmware-vmx 3368 user 5 -10 447m 182m 168m S 2.1 12.0 3214:21 vmware-vmx 2537 root 15 0 19040 4728 1572 S 0.0 0.3 95:12.36 vmware-serverd
well just make your xterm screen wider run “top” and press “c”
top - 11:58:10 up 56 days, 1:09, 1 user, load average: 0.56, 0.59, 0.96 Tasks: 88 total, 1 running, 87 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 1.2%us, 12.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 86.1%id, 0.0%wa, 0.1%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 1553968k total, 1517964k used, 36004k free, 4516k buffers Swap: 2040244k total, 107652k used, 1932592k free, 1282888k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 12387 user 5 -10 793m 533m 479m S 1.4 35.1 83:57.12 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx -C /vmfs/w2k8/w2k8.vmx -@ "" 12310 user 5 -10 743m 510m 497m S 8.3 33.7 277:43.21 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx -C /vmfs/rhyth/rhyth.vmx -@ "" 3368 user 5 -10 447m 182m 168m S 3.2 12.0 3214:21 /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx -C /vmfs/redmine-0.5/JumpBox.vmx 2537 root 15 0 19040 4728 1572 S 0.3 0.3 95:12.39 /usr/sbin/vmware-serverd -s -d
VMware Server 1.0.5 now available
Monday, April 14th, 2008VMware Server Version: 1.0.5 | 3/14/08 | Build: 80187 | is now available !
OpenVZ (CentOS based) live-CD VM server & VM guests
Sunday, January 6th, 2008There is an OpenVZ live-CD VZ VM server with VZ VM guests (based on CentOS or KNOPPIX) that you can download from http://wiki.openvz.org/Download_live_CD
And there is a quick start guide to read at http://wiki.openvz.org/Getting_started_with_OpenVZ_live_CD