Virtualization solutions on Linux systems - KVM and VirtualBox | Linux Today

Virtualization solutions on Linux systems – KVM and VirtualBox

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 26, 2011

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Looking at the trends in the IT industry,
virtualization has seen quite a boom in the last few years, because
it fits the concepts of utility computing and/or software as a
service.

Virtualization can be useful to you if you are an enterprise
architect, developer, a home user or basically everything in
between. We will begin with a short introduction about
virtualization in general, then we will specifically treat
VirtualBox and KVM as they seem to be most popular open source full
virtualization solutions.


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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