Ram's Technology Notes
One of the great leaps in recent years with virtualization is PCI Express device passthrough from host to guests – this essentially allows near native access and performance of PCIe devices in VMs and leads to experiences that feel like you are running two physical computers inside one. Since this technology has evolved and matured…
This is a brief introduction to setting up and running Virtual Machines in Linux. While there are several different options to accomplish this, my preferred method is using KVM + QEMU + LibVirt. Here’s what each of these does: QEMU is a full-fledged stand-alone emulator that can emulate all kinds of hardware for virtual machines…
Recently, I got a new SSD (Sandisk 256 GB in case you’re wondering) and as part of setting it up, I decided to clean install Windows 8 instead of moving my existing Windows 7 setup over. One of the things I wanted to try out was the integrated Hyper-V support in Windows 8 to host…