Open Source Systems Administration Software

We provide ready-to-use Oracle VM VirtualBox(R) images for open-source operating systems that can be used for testing and/or security-related purpose, or for anything you wish. News, HOWTOs and much more is available at the project web site. N.B. Newer OVAs are only available through BitTorrent: torrent links are published only on our website. Please search our database in http://virtualboxes.org/images/

Q4Wine is a qt4 (http://www.qtsoftware.com/) GUI for W.I.N.E. (http://winehq.org/) It will help you manage wine prefixes and installed applications.

This project provides an open framework for a web interface to the QEMU emulator and the VirtualBox command line applications that will have the capacity to be scaled across several systems built into its framework.

The HeV project offers an open source solution for building “Virtual Private Clouds” with servers that may be indifferently located either within the user organization or dedicated servers offered by many hosting providers.

SQS is a project assigned to remote management of computer systems. It provides a means by which a user may control the task queue on a remote computer. The system is flexible and easy to use, configure, and install. It includes secure data transfers.

UMLinuxControlCenter lets you create virtual networks based on user-mode-linux and uml-utilities by drag and drop icons of virtual machines, switches, network-links and the hostsystem. UMLinuxControlCenter is written in C++ using wxWidgets and Xerces.

virtualcontrol is a configuration and monitoring tool for QEMU/KVM instances on a linux box. virtualcontrol primarily uses the KVM command line tools to do its job. Apart from trivial functions like starting and stopping virtual machines, virtualcontrol also allows freezing/thawing virtual machines (snapshot including memory dump), KVM machine migration and advanced storage functions like HA and dedicated storage solutions (OpenSANd).