Virtualization

Ubuntu 21.04 code named, Hirsute Hippo is available for testing as of this writing with the official release date is set to be April 22, 2021. If you want to try it before the release date, you can grab a daily build image and install it. In this tutorial, you will learn VirtualBox on Ubuntu 21.04 Desktop. Install VirtualBox on...

If you have installed Ubuntu 21.04 on VirtualBox, you realize that it is not in fullscreen. In this guide, you will learn how to install VirtualBox guest additions on Ubuntu 21.04. Apart from enabling the virtual machine to have a full screen view, guest additions offers many other features; Mouse pointer integrationShared folders for easy sharing of files between the...

The latest stable release of Ubuntu, Ubuntu 21.04, code named Hirsute Hippo is set for official release on April 22, 2021. If you want to try it before the release date, you can grab a daily build image. In this tutorial, you learn how to install Ubuntu 21.04 Desktop on VirtualBox. Install Ubuntu 21.04 Desktop on VirtualBox Download Ubuntu 21.04 Daily...

This guide will take you through how to start and stop KVM virtual machines from command line. As much as KVM provides Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager), a desktop application for managing virtual machines through libvirt, it also provides a command line utility called virsh which enables the terminal centric users to manage KVM virtual machines from command line interface. Start and...

Follow through this guide to learn how to install Genymotion Android emulator on Ubuntu 20.04. Genymotion, is an android emulator that provides a virtual Android environment that enables you test various android applications over various virtual devices for purposes of testing or application development. Install Genymotion Android Emulator on Ubuntu 20.04 Prerequisites Before you can proceed to install Genymotion Android Emulator on...

In this tutorial, you will learn how to install latest VirtualBox on Ubuntu 20.04. As of this writing, VirtualBox 6.1 is the current major release with version 6.1.18 being the current maintenance release. As of the release of this major upgrade, quite a number of improvements and fixes were put in place. To see a complete list of improvements and...

Follow through this guide to learn how to list running and stopped vms on KVM. KVM, an acronym for Kernel-based Virtual Machine, is an open source virtualization technology built into Linux. Specifically, KVM lets you turn Linux into a hypervisor that allows a host machine to run multiple, isolated virtual environments called guests or virtual machines (VMs). So you could be using KVM to...

Do you have some KVM virtual machines that you want to make a copy and reuse them? In this simple tutorial, we will show you how to clone KVM virtual machines. How to Clone KVM Virtual Machines There are various ways in which you can clone KVM virtual machines; Clone KVM Virtual Machines using Virt-ManagerClone KVM Virtual Machines using virt-clone command Let us...

In this tutorial, you will learn how to install VirtualBox 6.1 on Fedora 33. VirtualBox 6.1 is available for installation in most Linux platforms package repositories. However, as of this writing, VirtualBox is not available on the default Fedora 33 repos. If you however need to install VirtualBox 6.1 on Fedora 33, you can do so by rebuilding the...

In order to set your Kali Linux running on VirtualBox in fullscreen mode, you need Guest additions installed on the VM. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install VirtualBox guest additions on Kali Linux 2020.3. Apart from enabling the virtual machine to have a full screen view, guest additions offers many other features; Mouse pointer integrationShared folders for...