# APRICOT 2018: NSRC Cloud & Virtualization workshop * **Date:** February 19-23, 2018 * **Location:** Kathmandu, Nepal * **Host:** [APRICOT 2018](https://2018.apricot.net/) * **Venue:** [Hotel Yak & Yeti](http://www.yakandyeti.com/)
## Workshop ##
* [Detailed Workshop Agenda](agenda.md.html) (includes links to presentations and schedule) * [Workshop Description and Summary](description.html) ## Useful Links ## * [Participants](participants.html) * [Instructors](instructors.html) * [Reference Materials](references.html) * [Books](books.html) * [Sponsors](sponsors.html) * [Group Photo](https://photos.nsrc.org/index.php?/category/125-apricot_2018) * All photos from [APRICOT 2018](https://photos.nsrc.org/index.php?/category/125-apricot_2018) * [Survey](https://nsrc.org/limesurvey/index.php/931628?lang=en) * [NSRC on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/nsrc.org) * [Mailing list](https://lists.nsrc.org/listinfo/nsrc-apricot2018-virt) Group photo
## Archives ## * The entire website in one archive will be listed below: * [virtual.tar.gz](virtual.tar.gz) * [virtual.zip](virtual.zip) ## Software ## * [Putty SSH](/downloads/putty.exe) ## Goals / objectives ## This workshop offers a general overview of virtualization technologies with a series of practical labs, during which participants will: * Create and manipulate virtual machines on the desktop using [VirtualBox](https://www.virtualbox.org/). * Create and manipulate virtual machines on the server using [KVM](http://www.linux-kvm.org/) and [libvirt](http://libvirt.org). * Manipulate file and block based virtual images and work with live VM migration between hosts * Create high availability virtualization server clusters using [Ganeti](https://code.google.com/p/ganeti/). The workshop aims to provide participants with virtualization solutions using free software and help them understand the different parts of a hypervisor, including storage management, networking, memory management, as well as the different types of container technologies (lightweight virtualization). ## Target audience ## Systems and network administrators that want to know more about virtualization technologies in general, and learn how to build high availability clusters. ## Pre-requisites ## Basic knowledge of the UNIX command line and IP networking is required.