October 2012

One million virtual machines on the march

October 10, 2012 - Open Source Networking

A network of virtual machines can be used for practical testing and research. Sandia National Laboratories recently announced that they have created a virtual network of three hundred thousand virtual machines, each of which is running the Android operating system, on a single large supercomputer. In the recent past the researchers at Sandia National Laboratories […]

Installing Debian Linux in a VirtualBox Virtual Machine

October 6, 2012 - Network Simulation, Open Source Networking

In this article, we will review the procedures required to install Debian Linux in a virtual machine managed by the VirtualBox application. A summary of the procedures is listed below: Download the Debian install DVD. Create a virtual machine using the VirtualBox application. Boot the virtual machine from the DVD image we downloaded Install the