This is a video about how to install Windows 7 on VirtualBox. VirtualBox is virtualization software available for Microsoft Windows, Intel Macs and Linux machines. It’s made to run on a desktop as it does not have the features required for a production environment. The good thing is that you can run it on your [...]

Install VMWare ESXi 4.0 and build a virtual machine on it. The video is backwards. It teaches you how to build a virtual machine on ESXi first and then how to install ESXi.

Virtual PC makes for pretty good hard drive software. It allows me to give a virtual machine a 160GB hard drive, but unless the virtual machine uses all that hard drive space, the virtual hard drive will be much smaller. It will be the size of the data stored on the virtual hard drive. However, [...]

This a short video about how to use a Linux distro called IPCop as a gateway for your virtual machines. I wanted to simulate a real network with a real gateway without dedicating a Gig or RAM to an ISA server. This Linux distribution runs on a 386 processor with 32 MB of Ram. The [...]

How to install server 2008 on virtual pc

This is a video on how to build on Virtual PC  an Ubuntu ( http://www.ubuntu.com ) LAMP server. I also use Putty ( http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ ) to download a program called webmin ( http://www.webmin.com/ ) I would recommend checking the website for the latest version number. The commands I enter are: https://IPADDRESSOFTHEMACHINE:10000

Watch as I install VMWare Server 2 on Windows XP. Then start an install of Ubuntu 8.10 as a virtual machine. VMWare Server 2 is a free download for Windows and Linux machines. It takes about 20 minutes to get up and running. Creating all your virtual machines will take some more time. VMWare Server [...]

Directions on how to install Virtual PC from Microsoft. A free download that lets you run several operating systems at the same time for testing purposes.