#KVM

Why VMware Workstation Is Free Now

For most of its 25-year life, VMware Workstation cost you real money — somewhere between $200 and $350 for a perpetual …

KVM, QEMU, and libvirt Explained: The Native Virtualization Stack for Linux

You keep seeing these three names together: KVM, QEMU, libvirt. They show up in the same sentence and usually in the sa…

HostHatch After 18 Months: A Developer's Experience with Their Singapore Compute VM

A neutral take from someone who's been running web services and DevOps workloads on it for a year and a half. Not spons…

Essential Virsh Commands: Managing VMs with VNC, SPICE & Remote Viewers

Introduction Virsh (Virtual Shell) is the command-line interface for managing virtual machines and hypervisors through …

How to Change the Default KVM/QEMU Image Location

Introduction "Have you ever run out of disk space on your root partition after creating just a few virtual machines? Th…

Supercharge Your Linux VMs: Enabling Seamless Desktop with SPICE on KVM/QEMU

Introduction So, you're a seasoned Linux admin diving deeper into the world of virtualization with libvirt, KVM, and QE…

Secure Your Homelab: Installing OPNsense as a Virtual Firewall

Introduction Are you tired of the limitations of your consumer-grade router? As your homelab grows, so does the need fo…

libvirt Networking: How to Create a VM Network with No Host or Internet Access

Creating an Isolated Internal Network for Virtual Machines 💻 Virtualization offers powerful tools for creating isolated…