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Virtualization

Tutorials providing information covering all areas of virtualization, such as virtualization platforms, server hardware, managing virtual environments, virtualization architectures and strategies, application issues and more.

10 Articles

Virtualization

Developing hypervisor from scratch: Part 4 - Setting up HOST and GUEST State

Developing hypervisor from scratch: Part 4 - Setting up HOST and GUEST State

In this article series you are going to learn how to develop your own hypervisor for virtualization in linux ecosystem. In this part we will do the setup of HOST and GUEST state area and at last the vmlaunch.

By Shubham Dubey 12 Nov 2019

Developing hypervisor from scratch: Part 3 - Setting up VMCS

Developing hypervisor from scratch: Part 3 - Setting up VMCS

In this article series you are going to learn how to develop your own hypervisor for virtualization in linux ecosystem. In this part we will do the setup of VMCS structure.

By Shubham Dubey 30 Sep 2019

Developing hypervisor from scratch: Part 2 - VMXON Operation

Developing hypervisor from scratch: Part 2 - VMXON Operation

In this article series you are going to learn how to develop your own hypervisor for virtualization in linux ecosystem. In this part we will execute VMXON operation.

By Shubham Dubey 9 Aug 2019

Developing hypervisor from scratch: Part 1 - Intro and Setup

Developing hypervisor from scratch: Part 1 - Intro and Setup

In this article series you are going to learn how to develop your own hypervisor for virtualization in linux ecosystem. Also this series will help to learn low level virtualization.

By Shubham Dubey 8 Aug 2019

Creating ARM architecture environment inside x86/x64 linux

Creating ARM architecture environment inside x86/x64 linux

If you want your hands on arm architecture assembly then you probably would be wondering how can I generate the *ARM* assembly or use ARM toolset in general inside my intel x86 or x64 architecture system. In this article we will explain you how you can do that by using qemu and chroot.

By Shubham Dubey 9 Feb 2018

Demystifying Linux Containers(LXC)

Containers

Demystifying Linux Containers(LXC)

Containers are the future when it comes to using and shipping applications. But Linux containers or LXC can be used for more than just that. This article covers the use of LXC on a daily basis as well as for production.

By Shubham Dubey 2 Jan 2018

Sandboxing and program isolation in linux using many approaches (Part 2)

Security

Sandboxing and program isolation in linux using many approaches (Part 2)

Containers are tools for isolation which use namespaces to archive that.They are called light weight virtualization because they provide process level isolation only, means they depend on linux kernel.

By Shubham Dubey 30 Dec 2017

Sandboxing and program isolation in linux using many approaches (Part 1)

Security

Sandboxing and program isolation in linux using many approaches (Part 1)

You can secure your linux system by isolating the malicious program or risky tasks using Sandboxing in different ways to stop it from affecting your main system.Sandboxing means providing a safe environment for a program or software so you can play around it without hurting your system

By Shubham Dubey 29 Dec 2017

Data Storage virtualization in Linux (Part 2)

Data Storage virtualization in Linux (Part 2)

In the previous part we talked about how we can create sparse file storage and create file system to mount or share across network. Now we will look into some common disk operations that we can do with this storage like scaling, encryption etc.

By Shubham Dubey 28 Dec 2017

Data Storage virtualization in Linux (Part 1)

Data Storage virtualization in Linux (Part 1)

Learn how to use file storage in Staas services. In file storage we create a file and use it as our virtual partition then format it in desire file system and mount it. All the operation we do in our real disk partition(/dev/sda*) can be done on that with some little tricks or manipulation.

By Shubham Dubey 28 Dec 2017