Server simulator or emulator

Question

I'm currently learning about using linux server. Is there any server simulator/emulator that I can use to practice what I have learn?

Answer 1

You could try installing a minimal version of the linux server you are playing around with. You won't have a GUI interface though, just pure CLI.

Answer 2

If you are on windows you can download the VMWare Player and use that to set up a virtual machine running ubuntu server for example.

Answer 3

Hmm.. well, vmware needs as many resources as you give it. If you want to run a Debian VM which is very lightweight you can get away with giving the vm as as little as 512 or even 256MB of RAM.

There are other hypervisors (hyper-v, virtualbox, ...) but if you can't run vmware player you can't run the others.

On Windows 10 there is the "linux subsystem" if you have some beta options enabled (google it, I don't remember what to do). It's not a server but you get a linux terminal and you can do most linux things with it. I have not tried it though.

Answer 4

This question is not really involved to programming...but since sololearn provide lesson on web development I suppose it might be a good idea to know more about using server

Answer 5

Schindlabua is there any other alternative? VMWare use lot of resource(if I'm not mistaken) and I'm not sure if the computer I'm using can handle it.

Answer 6

Schindlabua ok thanks, I will check on it