Creating new virtual machines with ubuntu-vm-builder
This could have been entitled "how to get a new operating system running in less than 2 minutes". Right, this post is intended for Linux Users only, but I know there are a couple out there... Virtualisation is a technology that is used to run several operating systems on one physical machine. In other words, on one server, I can run 2 windows XP, 3 windows 2000, and 10 linux - all running at the same time. There are many different ways to do this, ranging from XEN, KVM, Vmware to virtualbox and solaris containers... I made a small screencast (like a video) to show how easy and fast it is to create VMs using a script called ubuntu-vm-builder. To see the screencast, you must run Linux, download uvb.session and uvb.timing here: http://waste.mandragor.org/uvb/ , and run scriptreplay uvb.timing uvb.session . It is about 2 minutes long :) .