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This brief guide explains how to fix Busybox Initramfs error on Ubuntu Linux.

Virt-rescue is like a rescue CD, but for virtual machines. This guide describes how to rescue virtual machines with Virt-rescue in Linux.

This guide explains how to access Linux partitions from Windows 10 and transfer the data from Linux partitions to Windows using Linux reader.

Virt-builder is a command line tool for building variety of virtual machine images for local or cloud use, easily as well as quickly.

The libguestfs is a C library and a collection of tools on this library to create, view, access and modify virtual machine disk images in Linux.

I have a few virtual machines running with different Linux flavors in my KVM server. For the sake of easy reference, I always name each VM with the OS version or application that is currently running on that VM. This tutorial explains two different ways to rename KVM guest virtual machine from command line in Linux operating system.

In this tutorial, we are going to see a few different ways to find the IP address of a KVM virtual machine (guest) in Linux.

This guide explains how to enable serial console in the KVM guest system in order to enable virsh console access for KVM guests in Linux.

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is the new replacement for BIOS. This guide explains how to enable UEFI support for KVM virtual machines in Linux.

This step by step tutorial explains how to install and configure KVM in CentOS 8 server with screenshots.

This brief tutorial explains how to fix "hard disk with UUID already exists" issue in VirtualBox in Linux operating system.

QCOW is the default storage format for KVM virtual disks. Some Linux distributions especially RHEL provides customized Qcow2 images, so we can instantly create and run new virtual machines with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, or KVM hypervisor. In this guide, we will see how to create a KVM virtual machine using Qcow2 image in Linux.

I have been testing KVM extensively this week. Today I learned that KVM and Oracle VirtualBox doesn’t work at the same time. If you start a VM from VirtualBox when one of a KVM instance is running, you will be encountered with an error box titled "Virtualbox Guru Meditation".

Have you decided to switch from VirtualBox to KVM? Great! This guide explains how to migrate Virtualbox VMs into KVM VMs in Linux.

Virt-manager, short for Virtual Machine Manager, is a graphical user interface application used for managing Kvm virtual machines through libvirt.

Creating and managing KVM guests from command line might be bit hard. This guide explains how to easily manage KVM virtual machines using Cockpit via web browser.

In this guide, we will look at how to install and configure KVM in Ubuntu 20.04 headless server. And also we will see how to create and manage KVM guest machines using Virsh command line utility.

This guide explains how to fix "W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead." error in Ubuntu.

This guide provides all possible ways to find best Ubuntu APT repository mirror based on download speed and update status.

Rolling Rhino is simple shell script used to convert Ubuntu into a rolling release distribution that tracks the devel series.