sources of information about Virtualization
 

hey guys,
i'd like to get very easy to understand sources of information about what basicly is Virtualization and the things i sohould know about it as a novice to the linux world please

youtube videos well be great too,
of course i can search the web myself but i'm guessing you already know what is good and what is not a good source of information

To know what you might need to know about it, we would need to understand why you need to know ANYTHING about it!

What are your goals in learning about virtualization? Do you plan to use virtualization, and if so for what purpose?

As a novice to the Linux world, are you, perhaps, also a novice to the world of virtualization?

In the absence of such information, I would suggest first learning the general terms and meanings. I would look up virtualization and the modifiers "full virtualization", "para-virtualization", "containers" and "kernel based virtualization", and "hardware emulation" just as a start.
Perhaps with that as a grounding, more direction questions will come to you that you might either use to guide additional studies, or with which you could form more useful questions for this forum.

i don't need to know anything about it,
i WANT to know bcause i started thisa journey of learning things that have to do with linux in general
even if the connection is remote,
there are few reasons for this journey,
the main ones are to elvaite myself beyond what i'm capble of doing right now and also because i think this knoladge will help me in the future especioly knowing that i'm going to spend a big portion of my life working with computers,
i'd like to have a better time and feel more comfortable around computers and servers and everything related,


i am also a novice to the world of virtualization.

you gave the directions i needed so i'll go learning now and be back when i'm ready to take the next step

to be more specific,
i'm learning programing,
i don't want to stuck with windows and many other oversimplefied programs which keep me dumb and paying a lot of money to M$ and other companies for no real reason...
i like the FOSS way of doing things and i like the idea of a comunity,
in general i relate to mostly everything about the linux way and spirit

I see. There is little DIRECTLY to do with virtualization that serves a programming education purpose. Indirectly however, there is much. Development environments, testing environments, isolation and risk mitigation during development, are all areas where SOME knowledge of virtualization might serve you well.

That said, virtualization did not start and is not unique to Linux. Even containerization did not start and is not unique to Linux, although it is fair to say it is certainly maturing in the Linux space. The FOSS and Linux environment is a wonderful one in which to play with virtualization. Because of these things, and the freedom of many of the virtualization tools in this space, your goals will be well served by combining the two. Welcome to the jungle!

Once you have the basic terms down, you might want to consider a little reading about engines and tools not limited to: containers (LXC, OpenVZ for example), Paravirtualization engines (XEN for example), and full virtualization tools (OpenVZ, VirtualBox, QEMU, VMWARE for example).

Some are open source, others have open source components or tool-sets, a few are closed source but freely available and too good at SOMETHING to totally avoid. Clearly the advantage to the programmer that wants to examine CODE is with the OSS subset, but all have some value.

Best of luck!

@Elie..... Have you tried VirtualBox.org on your current M$WinPC?
OSboxes.org has pre-installed .vdi's. DistroWatch.com
Add 'wiki' to web [re]search studying! Enjoy. Best wishes!!!

it's very interesting