What is a bare-metal hypervisor? The Hypervisor is a software layer that allows the user to control and monitor Virtual machines. It allows users to run multiple types of guest operating systems on a single host machine. For example, we can run Windows 10, Ubuntu, Redhat, and more OS on a single Linux /Windows/macOS host … Read more
The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is an efficient way to get the benefits of different Linux operating systems on Windows 10 PC and laptops. WSL allows running of Linux apps directly on Windows 10 system without using any virtualization software like VirtualBox or VMware. The WSL is available for Windows 10 and Windows server 2019. Windows … Read more
As we all know that the VMware and VirtualBox are not the only Virtualization software to create Virtual Machines on Linux. There are few others such as Qemu & KVM. These are the most popular command-line tools to create virtual or delete virtual machines. So, being a command-line tool, it becomes very difficult for both … Read more
In simple words, the Qemu is a software program which is free and open source; used to create virtual machines over the top of other Linux operating systems just like VirtualBox and VMware workstation player. Not only, the Linux but one can also install this software on Windows and MacOS to test different Linux distros. … Read more
QEMU is free and open source (FOSS) hardware virtualization toll developed by Fabrice Bellard distributed under GPL license. It supports a wide range of operating systems including Windows and MacOS. Bochs, PearPC, etc. are similar, but do not have many of its features, such as high-speed and cross-platform features. It is like VirtualBox and VMware … Read more
Hundreds of different Linux distros are around over the internet and we cannot install all of them our PC for testing or learning purposes. However, one thing we can do is to run them on Linux as virtual machines to experience before actually switch to a new Linux Distro. For Windows, there are lots of … Read more
Searching for things on the internet and on a local system wasn’t a piece of pie before Cortana arrived on Windows 10. From searching for those cute cat videos on YouTube to the group photo of your school get-together 10 years back at an abandoned corner of your hard drive, just type in what you … Read more
What is Blender 3D Software? Blender in Ubuntu Linux is a boon for the opensource software users. There are many dominated 3D graphics application for Windows and MacOS such as AutoDesk and Adobe Fuse but paid. In such a scenario, the Blender 3 Graphics and animation creation tool being a free & open source (FOSS) helps Linux … Read more
Torrent files are a popular way to share big files over the internet. On a computer system you can easily download the torrent files using torrent software but what about the smartphone. People spend most of their time browsing the internet on smartphones. And if you have an Android smartphone then lots of apps are available to download the torrent files; the … Read more
At the dawn of 2019 while our life revolves with many electronic gadgets like mobile phones and computers almost everyone has multiple old devices back at their stash which they no longer use anymore. So, we are here with a list of lightweight Linux os to put old things back to work. If you are an … Read more
Gdebi is a simple, Open source and lightweight tool to install Debian packages on Ubuntu or Debian based Linux. What is Gdebi? We all acquainted with Ubuntu Software Center which is one of the easiest ways to install .Deb executable files. But believe me, the Gdebi is quicker than Ubuntu Software Center to install local … Read more
Just like we have software packages with .exe file extension on Windows; the Debian or Ubuntu or their based Linux operating systems used the .Deb packages or extensions. Every Debian based Linux operating system use Debian based packages (.DEB) to install or uninstall the software. You can install on uninstall Deb extension files or packages using the … Read more
The popular open source virtualization software for Desktop and servers: VirtualBox 6.0 has been released by the Oracle. This major update released by the Oracle has fixed a lot of shortcomings of the Virtualbox and comes with some additional features too such as it now supports the Oracle cloud infrastructure; we keep facing the problem … Read more
Installing Vmware workstation player on Linux Ubuntu is one of the best alternatives to VirtualBox for creating and running Virtual machines in minutes… While writing this article the Vmware Workstation 15 player was the latest version for Windows and Linux platforms like Ubuntu. Steps given here are same for Vmware workstation 14 player too. This … Read more