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VirtualBox Headless Configuration on Ubuntu | Virtualbox for server lucid

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Step 1. Install your Linux os (used ubuntu) a. use a lightweight desktop manager if you have only 1 pc (fluxbox) Step 2. Download VirtualBox package at VirtualBox.org a. use your appropriate distribution (on me is dpkg) Step 3. Install VirtualBox ( install your guest os i named my guest xp) Step 4. Install rdesktop   (I have compiled the source since I think its not available on ubuntu repository. make sure you have compiler. Extract the package and $   ./configure $    make (It will show errors if you don't have compilers installed like gcc etc. just download it using apt-get on ubuntu, yum on fedora etc) Step 5. Run VirtaulBox at console VBoxHeadless --startvm XP --vrdp on --vrdpaddress 192.168.1.102 --width 512 Step 6. Run rdesktop 192.168.1.102 Full working Headless VirtualBox * SO HOW CA YOU LEAVE THE SERVER (GUEST OS RUNNING IN BACKGROUND? USE SCREEN! SCREEN(1)            ...

Red Hat Drops Xen!

With Wednesday's beta release of its flagship operating system, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Red Hat has added a number of new capabilities that should help data centers better support virtualization and cloud computing. RHEL 6.0 will also have at least one less feature as well. This will be the first version of the OS not to include the Xen hypervisor. Instead the company plans to focus its virtualization efforts around the kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), said Tim Burke, Red Hat vice president of platform engineering   Nore of this here

Nginx Load Balancing | Reverse Proxy Nginx | SSL Nginx

Used The howto of nixcraft.in.conf that can be found on google baby First File   GNU nano 2.0.9                                          File: nginx.conf.bak                                                                                          #pid        /var/run/nginx.pid; pid   ...

Haproxy | HAProxy | Web load Balancing

#--------------------------------------------------------------------- # Example configuration for a possible web application.  See the # full configuration options online. # #   http://haproxy.1wt.eu/download/1.3/doc/configuration.txt # #--------------------------------------------------------------------- #--------------------------------------------------------------------- # Global settings #--------------------------------------------------------------------- global     log         127.0.0.1 local2     chroot      /var/lib/haproxy     pidfile     /var/run/haproxy.pid     maxconn     4000     user        haproxy     group       haproxy     daemon #-------------------------------...

Consolidated Server

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Proposed Virtualized Server Farm

nginx as load balancing rather than squid

I have tried and tested nginx load balancing but haven't used its secure port. if anyone has a working configuration to load balance 2 secure server please kindly post it here. Will post my configuration here later thanks!