Tag: virtualization

Linux : Configuring a network bridge for your Virtual Machines

My new center of interest those days being virtualization, I tried quite a few software starting with Xen, then QEMU, then KVM, and finally VirtualBox. But as far as giving a network access to the VM is concerned, I’ve always sticked to a network bridge for the reason that this makes the VM appear on the network just like any other computer of your network.

This post provided a sample script to setup a bridge suitable to use with all of the named virtualization softwares.

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Linux : Clusters, Vitualization, High Availability, Load balancing

I’m back from a 3-day-training about clusters with Linux which was pretty exciting, and here are the main points which were covered :

  • Vitualization with Xen
  • Sharing data with GFS / GNBD
  • Clusters with RedHat Cluster Suite
  • Load Balancing with Linux Virtual Server (LVS)

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