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oVirt requirements and other web based mgmt tools for kvm

I'm evaluating different virtualization management tools for KVM virtualization. I've a kvm ready server with 32GB ram. I'm looking for web based management tools where different people can ...
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Is the ubuntu a VM instance if I choose to install it alongside with windows via the wubi installer?

I recently installed a Ubuntu 12.10 64bit using wubi installer under Windows 8. Every time I start my machine, it will go to the Windows 8 bootloader first and then I can choose which operating system ...
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Virtual Machine Got Frozen on start of installing FreeBSD, on CentOS6.3 KVM

Problem description: In the installation section, after I entered the virt-install command with proper arguments(shown below) to build the virtual hardware configuration, and connected to the vm ...
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Windows 7 Enterprise under virtualization has no networking until login

I created a Windows 7 image to run under KVM based virtualiztion, but the networking for the image will not start until I login. I'm not very familiar with Windows, but it seems as though there is ...
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How to enable Virtualization Technology in Samsung Chromebox

I need to enable Virtualization Technology (VT) in my Samsung Chromebox (Series 5) from Google IO 2012 because of Android x86 emulator from Intel. I am on Developer BIOS, but I have no clue, how to ...
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virtualbox on macbook pro host , vt-x on centos 6.3 64bit guest vm not enabled

I installed latest Virtualbox (4.2.0) on a macbook pro with mac OSX 10.7.4 with 2 Ghz intel core i7 CPU. In a Centos 6.3 64 bit VM configured with enabled VT-X I don't manage to get vmx extensions ...
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Is there any way to run 64bit Virtual Machine on 64bit processor without hardware virtualization (amd-v, vt-x)?

We have a 64bit virtual machine (CentOS) that we'd like to run on 64bit host-machine (may be running under any OS), but that host-machine doesn't support hardware virtualization, which, you know, ...
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virt-manager kvm modules are not available

Fedora 16 latest updates running on a HP Mini 210 with an Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N550 @ 1.50GHz Updated answer: ============== sudo yum groupinstall Virtualization Only installed virt-viewer ...
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KVM with failover setup

We have a server running several virtual machines using KVM. While it works well, we are worried about potential hardware failures on that one physical server. We do backup nightly to a different ...
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PCI-X card controlled by VM

I have a PCI-X card which I would like to assign to one of my VM guests. I am using Ubuntu 10.10, with libvirt and kvm. Is there any way, of completely bypassing the host system, and routing all ...
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Virtual machines with failover setup

We have three servers and our plan is to run a number of virtual machines on them in such manner, that if one of the nodes blow up, we can either quickly or seamlessly get a spare running on another ...
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Guest and host cannot see each other using linux-kvm and macvtap

I'm migrating a kvm virtual machine from an old host (both hardware and OS) to a new one. For networking, virt-manager proposed me a new option: macvtap. This looked a good alternative to setting up ...
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Virtualization: tips to speed up a Linux KVM guest

I set up an host Linux system with KVM and I installed another Linux as a guest (Debian 6). I nside the guest I launch a vncserver and I access it from the host using vncviewer. It works fine for my ...
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My KVM is not perform that good as announce

I am using normal PC with the following specifications: Intel Core 2 6600 @ 2.40GHz RAM: 2G Motherboard: Intel DG965RY HDD: 7200 rpm @ 250G I have enabled Intel VT in BIOS setting. I install the ...
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Difference between virt-image and virt-clone

I was reading about virt-manager. However I was really confused between virt-image and virt-clone. Can anyone tell more about it or redirect me to some links that might help me. My requirement is to ...
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Best, easy to use open source virtualization solution for Ubuntu 10.04?

I am a big fan of VMWare Workstation - it works great and is so easy to use... However, I like open source. I realize there's VirtualBox, but ideally I was looking to something to do the following: ...
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Connect to virtual KVM machine/VNC from Xorg

I have a main Ubuntu system and a virtual Windows system, set up using QEMU/KVM. So, I can start Windows using virt-manager and connect to it using a VNC client. But what I really want to have is a ...