Today, of course, Microsoft loves Linux. In fact, Microsoft makes it super easy to deploy an Ubuntu virtual machine (VM) on Hyper-V. In this article, I will show you how it's done. In the Windows ...

To run Ubuntu in a VMware virtual machine, you need a computer that supports virtualization, the latest version of VMware Workstation Player, a four-core processor, 4GB to 8GB of RAM, and at least ...

Hyper-V's Quick Create gallery, which can build a new virtual machine in just a few clicks, includes not one but three separate Ubuntu images, including the new Ubuntu 20.04 version. Best of all ...

I'm trying to setup a new 16.04/LTS Ubuntu VM on a Hyper-V 2012R2 server. MS has a best-practices guide for Linux on Hyper-V. One thing they specify is that ext4 should be used if you're using a ...

I have an Ubuntu 14.04 server edition virtual machine installed under vSphere 5.5.The physical server is hosted with Online.net. The IP of the physical server is 195.154.xxx.yyy. The failover IP I ...

If the VM fails, I can restore it from a snapshot rather than rebuilding an entire installation. Also, when I need to update Ubuntu, I can simply revert to a previously saved state if something ...

Today, Ubuntu is at the heart of the world's largest OpenStack clouds, both public and private, in key sectors such as finance, media, retail, and telecommunications. Shuttleworth slammed VMware ...

This post is an update to the original, with all-new instructions but still using the same framework -- Oracle VM VirtualBox, which is an open source virtualization environment, and Ubuntu Linux.

I’m using a Mac host, and I’m going to start by installing the Ubuntu operating system, version 15.04 to be precise, in my VM. Generally speaking, it’s simpler to start off by installing a ...

We’ve discussed the benefits of creating a Windows VM with Hyper-V, but it doesn’t stop there. You can create an Ubuntu ...