KVM

KVM is a virtualization engine, like VirtualBox or VMWare.

I am testing it on Dart, a server that runs Centos 6.5

I needed to be able to run Ubuntu to test out BigBlueButton. (It seemed the easiest path at the moment.)

Set up

Installed packages via yum

Use

Create a new virtual machine, then start it.

mkdir /var/kvm
cd /var/kvm
qemu-img create -f qcow2 bigbluebutton.img 10G
/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -hda bigbluebutton.img -cdrom ~/ubuntu-13.10-server-i386.iso -boot d -m 2048 -vnc :0

Now connect via VNC client. On a Mac, I downloaded Vine VNC Client. It made me jump through hoops. I hope not to have to use it again.