Pages in category virtualization

Creating Windows virtual machines using virtIO drivers

Fedora infrastructure hosts virtIO drivers and additional software agents for Windows virtual machines running on kernel-based virtual machines (KVM). virtIO is a virtualization standard for network and disk device drivers.… Read more

Getting started with Apache HTTP Server

The Apache HTTP Server is one of the most commonly-used web servers. This section acts as a quick-start guide to deploying and configuring Apache on Fedora. Installing HTTPD This procedure… Read more

Using UEFI with QEMU

Firmware installation UEFI for x86 QEMU/KVM VMs is called OVMF (Open Virtual Machine Firmware). It comes from EDK2 (EFI Development Kit), which is the UEFI reference implementation. Installing 'UEFI for… Read more

Virtualization – an Overview

This page covers the efforts to integrate various virtualization technologies into Fedora. Introduction Virtualization allows one to run many guest virtual machines on top of a host operating system such… Read more

Virtualization – Getting Started

Fedora uses the libvirt family of tools as its virtualization solution. Enabling hardware virtualization support This section covers setting up libvirt on your system. After setting up libvirt, you can… Read more

Virtualization – How to Debug Issues

Effective bug reporting Reporting bugs effectively is an important skill for any Fedora user or developer. Narrowing down the possible causes of the bug and providing the right information in… Read more

VMware – what is it and how use it?

VMware provides cloud computing and virtualization software and services, their most important products are: VMware Workstation Player, is a virtualization software package and can run existing virtual appliances and create… Read more

Wine – Running Windows applications in the Fedora GUI

Wine is an open source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and OpenGL. Wine emulates the Windows runtime environment by translating Windows system calls into POSIX-compliant system… Read more