Editing Virtual machine images

Virtual machine images with OS preinstalled

== free virtual solution ==
* [https://www.virtualbox.org/ Oracle VM VirtualBox] {{access | date = 2018-09-17}}
** [http://virtualboxes.org/ VirtualBoxes]: [http://virtualboxes.org/images/ Free VirtualBox® Images] contains Linux, OpenSolaris & FreeBSD kernel {{OS}}
** {{exclaim}} [https://www.virtualbox.org/ Oracle VM VirtualBox] is GPL license. But VirtualBox Extension Pack is for personal use NOT for business purpose <ref>[https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox_PUEL VirtualBox_PUEL – Oracle VM VirtualBox]</ref>.
* [http://www.osboxes.org/ OSBoxes]  - Virtual Machines for VirtualBox & [https://www.vmware.com/ VMware] {{access | date = 2016-06-24}}
* [http://www.xenproject.org/ The Xen Project]: [http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Guest_VM_Images Guest VM Images - Xen] ''un-tested''
* [http://wiki.qemu.org/Main_Page QEMU]: [http://wiki.qemu.org/Testing#QEMU_disk_images Testing - QEMU]  ''un-tested''

OS specific:
* Ubuntu: [https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/ Ubuntu Cloud Images]
* Windows: * [http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/support/virtual-pc-2007.aspx Windows Virtual PC]  + [http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=11575 IE App Compat VHD from Official Microsoft] with different version of browser. For example you install IE v.6 on first virtual machine, and install IE v.7 on another virtual machine.

== commercial virtual solutions ==
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* [http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/virtualization_types.html Linux AMI Virtualization Types - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud]
* [https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn790290.aspx About Virtual Machine Images in Azure]
* [https://cloud.google.com/ Google Cloud Computing, Hosting Services & Cloud Support]
* more on '''virtual machines cloud hosting''' (search keyword)

== further reading ==
* Install the [[LiveCD]] on PC. Similar solutions for {{Win}} & {{Linux}}
* [[Check Browser Compatibility]]


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