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Transactions: WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON ADVANCES IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION
Transactions ID Number: 28-430
Full Name: Jiri Vojtesek
Position: Doctor (Researcher)
Age: ON
Sex: Male
Address: Nad Stranemi 4511, 760 05 Zlin
Country: CZECH REPUBLIC
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E-mail address: vojtesek@fai.utb.cz
Other E-mails: jiri.vojtesek@gmail.com
Title of the Paper: Virtualization as a Teaching Tool for IT-based Courses
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Jiri Vojtesek, Michal Bliznak, Radek Matusu, Tomas Dulik
Email addresses of all the authors: vojtesek@fai.utb.cz,bliznak@fai.utb.cz,matusu@fai.utb.cz,dulik@fai.utb.cz
Number of paper pages: 10
Abstract: Nowadays, the virtualization technologies are more and more often used in many informatics areas. They are applied for better utilization of existing hardware or software resources, servers' consolidation and for security reasons as well. This article shows the possibility of the virtualization technology usage also in the academic environment as a support of laboratory exercises of two academic courses. The case study is based on the idea of virtualization of the physical computer for lower costs and security reasons. The VMware products are used nowadays in our university and the article want to show other, especially free, alternatives to this commercial product like VirtualBox, Microsoft Virtual PC, XEN etc. Described approaches and techniques can be applied to many others similar subjects, not only in these two courses.
Keywords: Virtualization, VMware, VirtualBox, XEN, Virtual PC, VNC, NoMachine NX server, Paravirtualization, Operating systems
EXTENSION of the file: .pdf
Special (Invited) Session: Virtualization as a Teaching Tool
Organizer of the Session: 599-194
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