A virtual machine creates a virtual hard drive as well as a virtual computer, so you can install and run it from within another operating system. If you want to get rid of the virtualized (also known as the guest) operating system, just delete the virtual hard disk from the real (host) computer’s hard drive.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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Interesting Article, I've actually
Interesting Article, I've actually been playing with this alot in my spare time. I find that installing a light operating system - ie basically minimum installation w/a gui, enabling SSH pop out 3 or 4 virtual machines about 20gig's a pop. Install them with tester OS's and services and see how long they last.. definatly has added alot of functionality to a network. I've recently attempted to install Kubuntu w/Vmware ESX 1.4 w/1 Guest of Kubuntu, and did about 5 Guest with in Guest OS's and they all sat on my network happy as could be running each other. I speculate that this could be a great way to build up a DMZ to appear to be a very large network w/o actually having to invest in the mutliple system types for peneration testing and such.
I would be Curious to actually Use one Virtual machine as a Virtual Router. Set up another Virtual machine to run as a N-IDS system for the private network created by the Virtual router. Run a few hosts with Web services/Ftp/media server all on one machine and see where the break point is. I mean of course the break point is RAM, but lets put it out there that you had 4GB of RAM sitting on a Board w/3.3GHZ+ Intel chip. Maybe food for thought in why this is so great?