A PC Emulator in Javascript - Run Linux In Your Web Browser

Fabrice Bellard has developed a PC emulator (Virtual machine) using Javascript that runs a version of Linux in your web browser.

You can run a variety of Linux commands in the emulator. Since its initial release on May 16 2011, this project has seen some feature additions namely - a clipboard to exchange data between the VM and the host, and support for Opera and Internet Explorer apart from Firefox.

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Install Linux in your Dropbox account using VirtualBox

Dropbox is a very popular online storage service which provides 2GB of free space to store all your files, and selectively share them with the public. What is really nice about Dropbox is that it provides tools which integrates with Windows, Linux and Mac OSX and makes uploading and downloading files to and from your Dropbox, and act as a conduit for backing up all your important files - a seamless affair.

LinuxHaxor has a nice writeup on how to use your free 2GB Dropbox account to install your choice of Linux distribution via Sun's VirtualBox. Make sure the Linux distribution you choose is less than 2GB in size when installed as you will be limited by the 2GB space on Dropbox.

The writeup walks one through the installation of Damn Small Linux on Dropbox using VirtualBox. Read the article.

Installing Vmware on Ubuntu Using the Canonical Repository

This is a step by step howto to install and setup a Vmware server on a machine running a server version of Ubuntu. The idea is to install a linux server to run a Vmware Server and host the virtual machines without installing X windows and all the associated bloat. This ensures that the maximum amount of memory on the server machine is made available for the virtual machines.

Check out this well illustrated howto by Matthew Browne to learn how to achieve this.