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{{Title|VNX Project Documentation}}
 
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'''VNX (Virtualization over X)''' is the new release of the '''[[http://www.dit.upm.es/vnuml VNUML]]''' tool. VNX brings important new functionalities that overcome the most important limitations VNUML tool has:
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'''VNX (Virtualization over X)''' is the new release of the '''[http://www.dit.upm.es/vnuml VNUML]''' tool. VNX brings important new functionalities that overcome the most important limitations VNUML tool has:
 
* Integration of new virtualization platforms to allow virtual machines running other operating systems (Windows, FreeBSD, etc) apart from Linux. In this sense:
 
* Integration of new virtualization platforms to allow virtual machines running other operating systems (Windows, FreeBSD, etc) apart from Linux. In this sense:
 
** VNX uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt] to interact with the virtualization capabilities, allowing the use of most of the virtualization platforms available for Linux (KVM, Xen, etc)
 
** VNX uses [http://libvirt.org libvirt] to interact with the virtualization capabilities, allowing the use of most of the virtualization platforms available for Linux (KVM, Xen, etc)

Revision as of 09:53, 13 May 2011

VNX Project Documentation

VNX (Virtualization over X) is the new release of the VNUML tool. VNX brings important new functionalities that overcome the most important limitations VNUML tool has:

  • Integration of new virtualization platforms to allow virtual machines running other operating systems (Windows, FreeBSD, etc) apart from Linux. In this sense:
    • VNX uses libvirt to interact with the virtualization capabilities, allowing the use of most of the virtualization platforms available for Linux (KVM, Xen, etc)
    • Integrates Dynamips to allow limited emulation of CISCO routers
  • Restart of individual virtual machines
  • Autoconfiguration and command execution capabilities for several operating systems: Linux, FreeBSD and Windows (XP and 7).

Information for users

Downloading VNX

You can download VNX from http://www.dit.upm.es/vnx/download

VNX Root filesystems are temporarily hosted in http://idefix.dit.upm.es/download/vnx/filesystems