Did you know this about Virtual Machines (VMs)? Kali Linux, Ubuntu, Windows 11, macOS?

[@stefanodidiego3493]

I was sitting on the sofa thinking what to see. This video saves my night! Thank you David!

[@davidbombal]

Love that!! Hope you enjoyed the video!

[@elliottaldersonNICK]

@@davidbombal definately yes

[@xerox290]

@ABDELHAMID ER-RAJY Hello my friend.

[@JSRJS]

Been using virtualization for almost 20 years. Ran a huge ESXi cluster with over 300 VM's. I started doing virtualization around 2002. Amazing it's already 20+ year old technology. I really liked how you took a subject that can be hard to explain to non-technical types and made it simple. Good job!

[@pvasir]

I have been using Virtualization Technology since 1983 on IBM man. It is LPAR running in MVS environment for my VTAM App.

[@listener6596]

@@pvasir is there any way to contact you

[@davidbombal]

Thank you JS!

[@queenannsrevenge100]

I’ll never forget the first day I learned about virtualization - someone demoed ESX to me back in the 2000s, and it was like finding out commercial manned flight had actually been possible for decades, and you’ve been driving everywhere all this time. 😂

[@rickyricardo75]

@@davidbombal vmware do not provide with the free version anymore (take over by Broadcom). Do you have an alternative?

[@fixer1140]

And this is the reason why I pay for internet. Thank you so much David, gotta love all the content and the guests you invite every now and then. Cheers

[@davidbombal]

Thank you! I appreciate you watching my videos :)

[@RadarCubed]

yo literally same.

[@ahelalley]

You are really doing great working on video production and editing process. Good Job, David

[@davidbombal]

Thank you very much Ahmed!

[@pensiveboogie]

I have something to add to the pool of benefits of virtualisation that I don’t think you mentioned. Restored obsolescence (my words). I have a 2013 iMac with 24G of RAM and a 3 TB fusion drive. It is no longer upgradable by Apple, so it’s OS is at least two years old, but after installing the latest version of Parallels, I can now run Windows11. There’s enough grunt there to run Windows, but initially I had problems with Win upgrades, resolved by the newest upgrade to Parallels. Also before I retired in 2013 I was an IT manager in an organisation with 500 desktops. We used VM Ware, running on a server, and we built several VM masters, snapshots, I suppose, that we rolled out to staff. If there were bugs or issues, we fixed them in IT then overwrote the client PC remotely. This happened too for software updates, like MS Office and specialised vendor-supplied software. Occasionally we faced arrogant vendors who’s software wouldn’t run on VMs, deliberately or otherwise so we ganged up on the market by joining forces with other similar enterprises and demanded only software that supported VMs. Sometimes we ran into licensing difficulties, but eventually the big boys like Microsoft came around, abandoning per-device licences and accepting a total or quota model. By now that’s probably old news

[@brodriguez11000]

Opening up a wider software ecosystem with alternative operating systems.

[@davescomputercorner6015]

You... You know you could have installed directly do disk or partition?

[@MikeP59DE]

David, I'm again impressed how clear you structure and condense even quite wide fields, such as virtualization, into a nutshell. Not many people can do that. Thanks and keep the good work up.

[@davidbombal]

Thank you Michael!

[@gergemall]

Cheers 0:31

[@seifmwita5065]

David I'm not a comment guy, but for us from africa your really really help us. God bless you 🙏🙏 keep it up 👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@TheGenericEngineer]

The simplicity in your teaching is priceless for someone starting into the world of Linux and Virtualisation.

[@davidbombal]

Very happy to hear that! :)

[@omaralhalboosi2713]

And of course , thank you for the clear English accent , I find some instructors have very thick accent. Thank you so much , I keep working and learn from you and sometimes I feel that I am pretty tired , but I go back to your South Africa ocean view with motivation topics. May God bless you all.

[@bernardgarrett3897]

It's a South African accent!!!!!

[@x3roxide]

been running proxmox for a few years now. It is a good alternative to esxi for those wanting to try out a type1 hypervisor and has fewer restrictions using the free version.

[@davidbombal]

Good point Matthew. I should great some videos about proxmox as well - I'm just very used to VMware from using it for years :)

[@Darkk6969]

I vote for ProxMox as well. I also run virt-manager on my Linux workstation as it runs as type one hypervisor alongside my normal desktop.

[@ITPirate]

I'm going through my comptia a+ and just learned about virtualization and its blowing my mind it's pretty amazing! Thanks for sharing your expertise on the subject and how powerful this tech really is!

[@davidbombal]

Great to hear that Stephen! VMs are cool and give us so many options these days :)

[@bradmason4840]

i reccomend getting virtualbox, if you like this stuff its a free version and you can get the likes of linux for free to play around with. also good luck with A+!

[@alamenzzz2008]

السيد ديفد انت أنسان رائع ومفيد يشرفني يوماً ما الانتساب الي قناتك الجميلة الرائعه التي تفيدنا كثيراً شكراً لك

[@jblaze600]

Just downloaded my first VM which is Linux Mint Cinnamon. I just started my Network+ journey also. Great content here!!!

[@greaterthanlife]

Let's take a minute to appreciate the nested virtualization thing he did at 9:07

[@davidbombal]

Thank you. I was wondering if anyone would notice :)

[@davidsyes5970]

I heard reverse langua/speech. I think Tom from MI-5/Spooks is running an op, heheheh

[@Bob-1802]

Reminds me "The thirteenth floor" movie...

[@jtsinspain]

These things amaze me!

[@justinkinsey5517]

Awesome Vid David, we are a VMware Shop at work, I 'm learning new stuff all the time, your videos really do help me you are always triggering the curiousity, much thanks.

[@zeusdelta2842]

Sir we are really in love with your content, what a masterpiece really appreciated, addictive for tech freaks

[@davidbombal]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video. Lots more coming :)

[@zeusdelta2842]

@@davidbombal we are ready with flowers in hand to walcome 🤗

[@borisvokladski5844]

As a hobby IT enthusiast, I can confirm that you need to learn virtualization. If it wasn´t for virtualization I had never learned so much IT (networking, creating websites, setting up my own mailserver, data visualization, home automation, learning container orchestration etc.). I still remember back in the 00´s where I could spend a whole afternoon (and sometimes a whole night) installing and configure a bare metal Linux server, but when I made a mistake/ misconfiguration, I need to start from the beginning.

[@codewranglers]

Stumbled onto your channel recently and have been consuming a bunch. Really good content and explanations. Thanks for taking the time to do these!

[@sofiaengvall]

The bit about virtualizing network "hardware" was interesting but much too short, hoping for an in depth episode :) Thank you for creating good quality interesting content!

[@nelsnelsen6741]

Yes please!

[@lunhamegenogueira1969]

Great content as always! For some odd reason ( I am biased), would have preferred to see GNS3 or PnetLab instead of CML from Cisco and also a mention of KVM as a type 1 Hypervisor. Otherwise great content easy to understand. Thank you for making the time to explain all this!

[@davidbombal]

The problem with the other platforms is you don't get Cisco IOS as part of them :( It's also easier to demonstrate Cisco device virtualization using a Cisco product.

[@emesh75]

Very useful video - just like every videos you create. Your work helps me a lot as I am a 47yo beginner in IT :) Huge motivation and practical knowledge you share. Thank you very much!

[@sykoteddy]

Wow, that was a really good crash course summing it up really good! Thank you!

[@rohan.fernando]

Really great overview of VMs ! Been using VMWare for about 20 years and the product has been progressively locked down and split into various product marketing fractured versions. One trap for newbies with VMWare is the issues around compatibility between backward versions of VMWare built VMs when you have many years worth of VMs. Getting older VMs to run on more recent versions of VMWare host s/w can be a pain. There’s s/w tools for this, but still very annoying. Alternatively, in recent years VirtualBox has really advanced in big leaps. VirtualBox takes a little more technical effort to get set up and understand across different base OS’s, but it’s configurability and programmability is extraordinary. Being open is good, and documentation is also good.

[@bartmeeus9033]

Very nice tuturial on what a VM is, i did mis the mentioning of: MS Hyper-V and the advantage you have with a PRO version of Windows, you are allowed to activate 1 virtual machine with the same key (CAL) under Hyper-V on your Windows PRO, being able to connect to ESXI servers and manage them from your workstation with VMware Workstation Pro is mostly the reason people buy VMware Workstation Pro over using VMware Workstation Player, Proxmox, lots of NAS from Synology and QNAP support VM's these days, but for sure i'm going to test out the Cisco VM's, didn't know those existed, Thanks!

[@GU716]

This was a great refresher, but I have definitely learned a great deal from this! Thank you for your content that you provide to us!

[@discreteloner9573]

Very clear and thorough explanation. I have been using Virtualbox for a few years (around the time I started learning virtualization) and I still cannot find any better explanation than this on the internet. I also didn't understand virtualization type 1 and nested virtualization was difficult to find info or documentation to learn. Obviously I don't need it now, in the future, who know.

[@maximilliantimofte4797]

the content is a top tier presentation of virtualization and the description part has all the important things structured clearly and smart in chapters

[@chreinisch]

20 Years ago I became a CCNA Instructor. That virtualization does help a whole lot in deed. Thanks for the heads up 😁

[@cthoadmin7458]

Quite simply the best introduction to virtualisation I have ever seen. David Bombal is an expositor of the highest order.

[@davidbombal]

You are very kind! Thank you :)

[@sourovekummarsaha5837]

I have found your channel a few days ago. After watching some of your videos I am starting to like your content. Full of knowledge and entertaining at the same time. I wish you all the best 😊

[@regiom2000]

I am New at this here. After watching one of your videos on how to install Kali and Ubuntu Linux on macOS, VMware worked best on macOS with intel, Virtual Box is better on Windows 10 so far. Excellent updated presentation on the diverse ways to set up virtual machines. \ Thank you for all your time invested on instruction thru your Chanel!

[@racerxds]

Fantastic content, as always! Thanks for covering this topic. I've used VirtualBox for a few years now and I credit it with being able to learn various Linux distros. You mentioned the ability to share clipboard (cut/copy/paste) data between VM & host, which is quite valuable. I've also found that shared folders are a powerful tool. I can create or download files on the VM and directly store them in a folder on the host or other VM where my collaboration or other paid-for tools are hosted.

[@stuarticampbell]

Not to forget that you don't need a dedicated fancy server to run a type 1 hypervisor, for playing a laptop will work fine. Also, would be nice to have listed some of the other type 1 options like, proxmox, xcp-ng, etc... but overall nice video explaining some of the core concepts.

[@levskilevov4888]

Good video David Bombal, but there is also Proxmox -KVM /Ovirt(RHEL Virtualisation -KVM)/XCP-NG(XEN) which all is FREE and good alternatives to VMware vSphere. Also -very important -if you run GNU Linux -there is native Virtual Machine manager(VMM) - used KVM who run faster then others.

[@Darkk6969]

I personally use two node ProxMox for my home lab. Also run virt-manager on my Debian 11 with KDE workstation. Runs like a champ.

[@AhmadAli-ht6hy]

Amazing content- super enjoyable! Thanks David ! Learnt a tonne and you got me feeling alot more confident. Appreciate you taking the time to spread your knowledge

[@davidbombal]

Great to hear that Ahmad! Thank you :)

[@race_Bannon]

This comparison of possibilities and features was very good. Thanks.

[@napolitano_88]

I really enjoy watching your videos. You always inspire me to learn new things.

[@davidbombal]

Thank you Seb! Technology is cool :)

[@Dan-codes]

Almost every video you make answers questions I have, thank you.

[@peterl1195]

Thank you for the quick intro to VM's David! Maybe 10 sec about how to move images/VM's between different kinds of Hv's? Pros and Cons?

[@flatbrow2]

Hi David, just in process of working out what to run on bare metal, what to run as VM and how to get the flexibility to create new stuff on the fly. This video is awesome, you have covered so much in 10 minutes it will keep me going for months. You have shown me attributes i did not know existed. Currently wrestling with remote access to Ubuntu 22/02 Desktop from anywhere, have tried TViewer, RDP / Wayland, and xrdp C-nergy, If you get time to show a windows laptop running VB with kali remoting into a Ubunt 22.04 desktop that would be fantastic 🙂

[@huntvilla2474]

Virtualisation is the best and very useful tool for all the tech beginners🙂 , and for those who studying and working in the field of IT sectors. Excellent video David Sir

[@jimmyfavereau]

a year later... GOLD! thanks David and crew

[@davidbombal]

Create your own virtual machine on Linode with a 60-day $100 credit: davidbombal.wiki/linode If that link doesn't work for you, try this link: www.linode.com/lp/youtube-viewers/?ifso=davidbombal Please note: Credits expire in 60 days. Big thanks to Linode for sponsoring this video! Doesn't matter if you want to be an Ethical hacker, or developer, or a network engineer, or work with AI, or computer science.... virtualization is a core skill in Information Technology - and you need to learn this. Learning about Virtual Machines, Type 1 and Type 2 Hypervisors and basic virtualization can really change your life. This is a core skill. // MENU // 00:00 - You NEED to Learn Virtualization! 00:32 - What This Video Covers 00:40 - Before Virtualization & Benefits 02:04 - Type 2 Hypervisor Demo//VMWare Fusion 03:14 - Multiple OS Instances 03:35 - Suspend//Save OS State to Disk 04:04 - Windows 11 vs 98 Resoure Usage 04:26 - Connecting VMs to Each Other 05:49 - Running Multiple OSs at Once 06:42 - Cisco CSR Router//Virtualizing Network Devices 07:51 - Learning Networking//Physical vs Virtual 08:04 - Virtual Machine Snapshots 08:59 - Inception//Nested Virtualization 10:15 - Benefit of Snapshots 10:47 - Type 2 Hypervisor Disadvantages 11:03 - Type 1 Hypervisors 12:04 - Hosting OSs in the Cloud 12:47 - Linode//Try It For Yourself! 13:03 - Setting Up a VM in Linode 14:13 - SSH into Linode VM 15:07 - Cisco Modeling Labs//Simulating Networks 16:56 - Which Hypervisor to Use//for Windows 18:31 - Which Hypervisor to Use//for Mac 19:25 - Which Hypervisor Do You Use?//Leave a Comment! // Videos mentioned // Kali in the cloud (Linode): kzbin.info/www/bejne/iqaspHuBitB8Zsk How to Install Ubuntu on VirtualBox using Windows 10: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6TEYZSZipmjo7s Ubuntu 20.04 install: Windows 10 using VMware Player: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eGLXdIWtoKugpKM Minecraft hacking with PYTHON and Log4j // Netcat reverse shell exploiting CVE: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5fRnaiLgMSqlbc // David's SOCIAL // Discord: discord.gg/davidbombal Twitter: twitter.com/davidbombal Instagram: instagram.com/davidbombal LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/davidbombal Facebook: facebook.com/davidbombal.co TikTok: tiktok.com/@davidbombal KZbin Main Channel: kzbin.info KZbin Tech Channel: kzbin.info/door/ZTIRrENWr_rjVoA7BcUE_A KZbin Clips Channel: kzbin.info/door/bY5wGxQgIiAeMdNkW5wM6Q KZbin Shorts Channel: kzbin.info/door/EyCubIF0e8MYi1jkgVepKg Apple Podcast: davidbombal.wiki/applepodcast Spotify Podcast: open.spotify.com/show/3f6k6gERfuriI96efWWLQQ // MY STUFF // www.amazon.com/shop/davidbombal // SPONSORS // Interested in sponsoring my videos? Reach out to my team here: [e-mail] Disclaimer: This video is for educational purposes only. Please note that links listed may be affiliate links and provide me with a small percentage/kickback should you use them to purchase any of the items listed or recommended. Thank you for supporting me and this channel!

[@xProsek]

Can I tell them in the section why I need strong machine, I mean the truth for hashcat to pentest my own network?

[@neilwalker5119]

Proxmox is a superb Type1 hypervisor. So many great features: HA/ZFS/Ceph, with great backup and network options. It's got an API that allows you to spin up large topologies with ease, using Terraform, via the telmate provider.

[@DavidM2002]

I learned how to create and deploy VM's on my QNAP NAS using the native QNAP Virtualization Station app. Because the NAS is running 24/7, being able to run certain software on the VM 24/7 has opened up a rabbit hole that has been great to explore.

[@sebastianwolf1464]

Hi David many rhanx for our content. On Windows Hyper V ist working good and it works without installing third Party SW.

[@rickuconnu600]

Love the ideal of setting up qubes and whonix together and networking the lan on another machine with software defined firewalls etc on a spare machine, dns server router etc then joining tor... Very annonomous and secure ethical techs box.

[@a.o.3523]

Excellent video covering all the different types/options. I use virtual box and VMware player both running on Ubuntu. I have found trying to run virtual box in Kali is tough to get going and sometimes you lose your whole entire set of machines. Don't recommend. It'd be nice to see a more in depth of the type1 hypervisor and also the virtual routers and what you can do with a complete modeled virtual network.

[@xAngryDx]

Great work David And, since you touched on this topic, I would like to see videos about containers 🙂 Wish you all the very best.

[@davidbombal]

Coming soon Dani :)

[@_NET_]

Hands down a perfect stepping stone on getting started is VirtualBox. One of the biggest reasons is NIC compatibility and FAR less setup complications. Especially if your running more then 1 NIC. As always great video David. 🙏

[@AnnOminous7]

I'd like to hear your opinion of MS HyperV. The lack of any mention was disappointing.

[@apagan]

As always great content. 👍 I am not a newbie in Tech, but since technology changes by the minute I am grateful to watch your videos because I keep learning new things & tech.

[@9wegorz]

Wow. What a attractive way to show crucial information about virtualization. I am impressed 🎉. Informative yet entertaining at the same time.

[@raulgarcia1759]

I've been running Kali on UTM for a while and my experience has been really good, no issues, no problems, runs just fine

[@JamieR]

Proxmox is one I'm interesting in hearing more indepth about from a proficient user. Different ways to host on single machine setups, servers. Passthrough or GPU sharing from a single to multiple GPUs for single to multiple different Os. Snapshotting, backup, maintenance. All the good stuff!

[@derekcarver9205]

Great job on the video... Liked the BSOD you had about halfway through. :)

[@Lupinicus1664]

I can safely say that the early days if virtualization, in the 1980s, really did revolutionise the business. It made errors during testing less serious, especially when working on operating systems, as I was. It used to take hours to restore even a small test system if the disks became corrupted for instance. Very nice overview of modern virtualization. Keep up the good work.

[@davidbombal]

Thank you!

[@brodriguez11000]

Turning point is when personal computers started supporting hardware virtualization.

[@lucasmoreira3237]

Awesome explanation! Thank you.

[@johntheawsomeful]

Drunk AF for this hurricane so I had to save for later, but video = great as always. Quality content Stay safe in this torn guys LFG 🔥

[@rjvtechnologies]

regarding keyboards and mouses you don't need as many you can use a kvm and use one keyboard and mouse in all devices, the input devices will be connected over network and you change devices by setting different channels or default keys in your keyboard like ctrl+f1, etc

[@zipp4everyone263]

Really good video! Aparently im quite well versed in the use of VM's, didnt think so before watching this video as everything has been self taught. Absolutely agree on Virtualbox being a good type 2, however id recommend limiting data streams to host > client direction only as playing around with virtual os's often lulls you into a false sense of security and you dont want an unsecured OS running with access to your secure pc. Also didnt know there were good compat layers between architectures, thats quite insane if you think about it! Really going to spice up my old 3700k type 1 (proxmox atm). Could be really fun to emulate microcontrollers before getting my hands on them :) What you missed: Proxmox: Its a really nice type 1 with cluster support. The base proxmox install can even handle things like Netdata for process graphing. Would be golden to get some deeper insight into systems like Vmware Horizon and real time remote vm's where you use a vmware install on what basically becomes a thin client, to load golden images in a kiosk like fashion. Its really stable and a powerful way of doing multi-device, multi user computing/interfacing. Imagine having a 3 story house. You have a screen, a small "node" (thinkcenter strapped to the back of the screen and a keyboard attached to that) on each floor. That node runs the aformentioned setup with horizon servers in the basement dealing with the created sessions. You log into one of these nodes using an rfid tag and bam, you get access to the same server/setup no matter what floor you're on! Got a huge datacenter and the need to access monitoring systems all over, but cant use a laptop due to static issues or security? Use one of those nodes! Got a hospital setting where you need staff to be able to access critical files/journal systems quickly and with ease? There you go!

[@Merrlin]

This is great stuff, thank you for this! I learned about Virtual Box back in school but the way the class was setup was not intuitive enough for me to to actually apply anything other than installing an OS & allocating resources to the Virtual Machine

[@RandyHanley]

I am always impressed with how well you explain things! Such a great video.

[@SLabs-my7vr]

Your videos are always great and educative. Thank you for this channel. I'd like you to explain all the various networking options inside hypervisors.

[@esaelvladimir3672]

Eagerly waiting for this topic from our beloved sir and do make videos further on python hacking see you david.

[@davidbombal]

Thank you! That is coming soon :)

[@davidadams421]

I've used VMWare and VirtualBox and find HyperV just as performant and feature rich. I'm no expert, but it works for my needs. And free (with a Windows 10 Pro license). Running virtual Kali on the WSL hypervisor works great too. Surprised these weren't at least mentioned in a video about hypervisors.

[@repairman2be250]

Thanks for this informative video. I use Proxmox on Dell R720 and R820 with dedicated graphics cards like GT430, GTX970, RX550. Here I use nomachine to remote connect to vm's. Also use a Huanaznhi X99-CH8 with E5-2680 V4, 128GB RAM, 2TB NVME SSD and a RX550 and RX580 graphics card and 3 monitors on Proxmox. Serves me well.

[@thedeadblitz]

Lmao I love the little clips you throw into your videos, they always crack me up. awesome content! Thank you

[@davidbombal]

Glad you like them! My editors are amazing :)

[@crgotit]

Had no idea you could virtualize Cisco routers. Thank you!

[@andriesvanderwesthuizen9873]

Thanks David, great content in this video. I feel like I learned something new by watching

[@PicyPoe]

Please share your home setup. Your home server, networking devices etc. and how do you utilize it all to run this channel? What is your virtualization workhorse?

[@davidbombal]

Great suggestion! I do many things, but be good to rebuild the infrastructure and show all of you :)

[@mindawakening3873]

Awesome and thankyou for sharing this content! Enjoyed it and will take up ons one of your suggestions.

[@CyberABE]

A great video as always! Thanks David Bombal!

[@juliusrowe9374]

Great tutorial David! Super informative too.

[@PoeLemic]

Thanks for sharing this knowledge with us. I'd like to learn more about virtualization because my old hardware is dying, and I'd like to bring my older machines and put on newer hardware.

[@semitangent]

As a follow-up, it seems natural to compare virtualization to containers. Because some times, you use a VM, hence virtualize hardware, where you actually just want to run a specific software configuration, for which it is actually enough to' virtualize' the software config with containers.

[@rotflol6666]

On Linux LXD gives you both!

[@brodriguez11000]

Maybe BSD Jails or Solaris Zones.

[@lowkeyrandomguy]

Virtualization is the way to go. In my case, I am working in a big company with lots of legacy applications that runs both on linux and windows. There is no better way than supporting those applications. Been using an M1 Macbook pro in my work and found that VMware fusion is the best free there is but with lots of functionality missing like shared clipboards and better hardware acceleration.

[@Grocho14]

Very informative video - well done, David!

[@Dutch-linux]

I been using virtualbox for years now and never had any problems it is great for distro hopping

[@ryangill1461]

As a former (paper-and-pencil) chemical engineer who's now migrating into IT/Python programming, I can certify that this channel is worth its weight in gold!

[@davidbombal]

Thank you! Very happy to hear that!

[@sammo7877]

A lot of information in one video - nice job!

[@aroudjbabamousse3377]

Thank you David, indeed number 1 in Virtualization: Virtual Box from Oracle

[@teosto1384]

I've used some virtualization in the past but haven't really done proper computer computing in years. Running into this video by a dumb luck really sparked my interest once more. Maybe I'll try to utilize my Chromebook laptop to actually do something useful by installing Windows and a few proper Linuxes on it.

[@VasilisEmmanouilidis]

You did a good job explaining what a virtual machine is but you forgot to mention Hyper-V, which is a type 1 hypervisor already integrated into Windows and the best option for a Windows machine. And absolutely free of course.

[@farooqdidar5731]

Hi David, How should i thank you for your content ,its to the point and accurate. Kindly create videos pertaining to active directory /creating domain environment/adding users(using Virtualization). Much love from Pakistan.💚

[@seanjarecki2570]

Please make a video on the topic of VM security. Discuss topics like the need for virus scanners and software firewalls within the VM, risks if the VM itself is compromised, what is seen when running a packet capture on the base device WLAN adapter that is being shared through the VM. General best practices and precautions.

[@jmr]

I'm having fun working with containerization right now. A very similar topic.

[@DJChangez]

Great video thanks! I personally use a type 1 hypervisor called Proxmox on an old Dell laptop I had laying around.

[@francisreidjr3788]

great work David, a great over view

[@ganjarseo]

Such a great content and explanation, especially for new VM user.. thank you

[@mrandrewromero]

You did an incredible job explaining the virtualization process. I prefer VM Ware Workstation after getting my feet wet with VirtualBox. Can you do a instructional video on Ventoy, it also touches on running multiple iso's on one external hard drive or USB. Please make sure to speak about how to make Ventoy persistent because I haven't found any english videos on it. Thanks again for our incredible forum.

[@avengerpenguin]

I've found using KVM/Libvirt on a Linux host yields the best performance. Using virt-manager or Cockpit as a GUI to manage guests makes it dead easy to spin up a Virtual Machine. With a little tinkering in config files and editing XML, it's easy enough to pass through a GPU to add graphics acceleration. I remember one of your guests once mentioned that the reason they don't use Linux as their primary OS is because it does not support Adobe products or they run poorly in a VM. KVM/Libvirt solves this dilemma without having to dual boot.

[@Darkk6969]

Virt-manager for the win.

[@RealRestEasy]

Could you not run a travel router and then use a switch? All connect via Ethernet? Switch to travel router such as GL mango

[@cs_cy8er]

Am I right in saying that Proxmox VE was not mentioned in this video, it's very popular and very customisable, I have it on two old recycled HPE DL360 G7's, I virtualise my router (pfsense) in proxmox with PCI pass though, it was a bit of a pain to set up but works really well for what I have and need. Other than that very nice video, you did a great job of describing type 1 and 2 hypervisors, many people struggle to understand the difference, but this makes it clear. 👍👍👍

[@williami-iovvell6735]

Excellent explanation. You are so right about the need for RAM with nesting. Even with 16 gigs nesting two deep with KVM, HTB has no problem crashing the inner most VM. You gave me a great idea though. I wonder how running VMweare ESIX on the first guest, rather than another distro, would cut down on the over head and allow more allocated RAM for the inner most guest. 🤔 Thanks for the project. 🍻

[@johnc5258]

such a game-changer. i learned linux thanks to linode

[@davidbombal]

That's fantastic to hear! Did you find it easier to spin up a VM on Linode rather than use a local VM?

[@Awais_khan0921]

@@davidbombal is it free?

[@1over137]

I work internationally. I don't think I have developed on or for a physical machine in work since about 2014. I log into a VM, all the dev tools and servers are VMs. There are huge layers of virtualisation of everything including IPs and networks. Nothing is quiet what it seems anymore. Since about 2020 the next push is virtualising the applications, "containerisation", kubernetes etc. It completely removes the coupling between "boxes" and applications. An enterprise can throw out a big pool of 250 non-commodity, identical rack blade setups, put k8s of OpenShift on it and deploy 1000s of applications. Similar is happening in data warehousing with distributed filesystems and processing decoupling the box and even HDDs from storage entirely. The only downside with all this is just a simple thing. When it doesn't work. When it gets corrupted at 3am and it's your phone that rings. It's not an easy task to put humpty back together again when there are so, so, many layers of virtualisation and abstraction.

[@poseidon3032]

The biggest benefit for virtual machines to me is the ability to run old Window games. The problem is with hardware peripheral virtualization. I had a game in Windows 98 that needed a game port, but the virtual software didn't provide it. Even in let's say a USB translation. Then comes the sound driver. It seems most virtualization software is designed only for business, network, server, and security purposes and not for gaming. Maybe I hadn't found the right program. But it was the mid-2000's since I last fooled with it. Now I did had a job running insurance claims, remote work, where I wanted a second Windows with it's own license to run the work programs. In this instance, I can easily back everything up every evening and if for whatever reason my laptop broke, I can replace it, install the virtualization software along with the virtual copy of Windows, and get back up and running very quickly. It would also be more secure. The computer or laptop is just a host and had very little to do with my work which is all on my virtual OS.

[@allotmentmonkey7328]

From a type 2 point of view - I prefer using a Linux host, usually Ubuntu server, and libvirt... managing my vms with virsh or virsh manager is more convenient for me... and in most (but not all) cases more stable than virtualbox and less restricted than VMware player.

[@TheTechWorld4U]

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[@tonigon5767]

I used Virtual Box for a long time, but recently I have tried Hypervisor and I find that as far as setup goes, I prefer HyperV. A few years ago, I found HyperV to be quite unusable unless it ran in a server. Times change I guess.

[@brodriguez11000]

Microsoft virtualization has come a long way. Windows 10 even uses it for security behind the scenes.

[@edwardmacnab354]

How come so little is said here about HyperV , is there some sort of prejudice against it , or is it just bad ?