Today we will build a TorrentFlux appliance. This appliance is one of my early works. international

If you followed our article series over Ideal Virtualization Solution Using Ubuntu, you suppose to have an up and running KVM based Virtualization Host. Now we will start with actual work. We will start to build and out-roll virtual appliances. Our first appliance will be the repository server. This machine will act like a proxy [...]

For connecting to my KVM machines I am using virt-viewer (Virtual Machine Viewer). To be able to use this application you need to install virt-viewer on your client machine and if your host is running virtlib you can easily open up VNC connections. marketing

virsh is a command line management interface for your virtual machines. Using this program you can manage your local or remove virtual machines. virsh application comes with several commands and options, but for your day to day work you will be using small set of them.

At our previous article ”Installing Ubuntu KVM Virtualization Host” we have installed a Virtualization Host. Actually standard installation already made some network configurations for us. As you can see below our virtualization host has a bridge network virbr0. This bridge network will be used by our virtual machines and they will receive an IP number from [...]

Lets start with the requirements. Does our system support KVM? KVM requires a cpu with virtualization support. You need a cpu with INTEL-VT or AMD-V support. With following command you can check if your cpu supports one of the virtualization techniques : egrep ‘(vmx|svm)’ /proc/cpuinfo If you don’t see anything it is a pitty but  [...]

As of 8.04 Hardy Heron release Ubuntu introduced several nice tools and features for Virtualization. Build-in support for KVM Ubuntu Server Edition JeOS (Just enough OS) JeOS is a specialised installation of Ubuntu Server Edition with a tuned kernel that only contains the base elements needed to run within a virtualized environment vm-builder ubuntu-virt-server ( [...]