Xen – Supports Windows as well as Linux distros.VirtualBox – Open source application available for Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris.Vmware – Available for Windows and Linux.Q – open source virtualization tool available for windows, mac and Linux.Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 – available for x86 and x86_64 bit platform.A few of them are platform specific and rest of them are available to be use on any platform. There are several virtualization tools available. A host physical server can host one or more virtual machine, which may power different OS (Windows, Linux, UNIX, BSD). Virtualization is achieved by creating virtual machines which powers an Operating System. Virtualization is the process of creating non-real (virtual) version of operating system, storage, network resource and hardware. The download, installation and configuration of Virtualbox and PhpVirtualBox will follow for Debian and CentOS based Distributions.

We will be taking you to a quick note of what virtualization is, several virtualization tools before a complete guide on downloading, installing and configuring Virtualbox and PhpVirtualBox which is a web based virtual box front end. In the list of 10 HOT IT Skills in demand Virtualization (Vmware) stands at the top of the list. Virtualization is one of the most discussed topic in the field of Linux and IT in general.

Install virtualbox on debian