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Goodbye virtual machines, hello microVMs

Small Scale free

You can have your cake and eat it, too: MicroVMs feature the strong isolation of virtual machines and lightweight behaviors of containers.
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Goodbye cloud VMs, hello laptop VMs

Local Launch free

Multipass lets you launch and run Ubuntu virtual machines, use cloud-init to configure the VMs, and prototype cloud launches locally in minutes.
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Server update with Azure Update Management

Fanfare free

Microsoft Azure Update Management automatically patches servers in on-premises data centers, virtual servers on Azure and other cloud services, and even Linux servers.
Azure , management , Microsoft , virtual machines
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Back up virtual machines and clusters

Flexible Security free

Vembu BDR Suite provides comprehensive software that supports flexible configuration when backing up virtual production operations.
Hyper-V , SQL , virtual machines
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Controlled container communication

Return to Sender free

Tune the iptables configuration for Docker by establishing your own forwarding rules.
containers , Docker , Firewall , hosting , virtual machines
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A full virtualizer and an alternative to containers

Lighting the Fuse free

Firecracker combines the security and isolation of real VMs with the light weight of containers.
containers , Security , Virtualization , VM manager
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Figure 1: Thanks to VRDP support, you can access the virtual machine consoles in your browser with phpVirtualBox.

Server-Based VirtualBox

VirtualBox is a popular virtualization choice on the desktop. In this article, we show how you can also run VirtualBox on a Linux server – with all the comforts of a graphical user interface.

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Understanding Hardware-Assisted Virtualization

The Intel VT and AMD-V extensions bring x86 virtualization to the 21st Century. Learn why hardware-assisted virtualization is important and what to watch for the next time you buy a computer. We'll also show you how to configure virtualization on a typical Linux system.

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