I have been searching for partition editors while my Windows Vista had only one partition. I needed atleast 4 partitions so i searched for partition editors.The first one that came to my mind was the Partition Magic. One of my friends told me that using Partition Magic for Windows Vista would be a bad idea .So i searched for something simple and free of cost. It was then I came across Gparted. Gparted is really a magnificent stuff that i never wanted to miss. It has a really cool interface with support for almost all types of filesystems. Gparted supports filesystems like NTFS,FAT32,EXT4,EXT3,HFS and the list goes on.Gparted for Windows and Linux is available for download. It is always a good idea to have a Gparted live CD . Download the .iso image burn the disk .Screenshots of the partitioning procedure are given below.

For making a partition in Gparted follow the steps.

1.Insert the Gparted CD and reboot your system ,after a few questions Gparted is ready to go.

2.Gparted will list your current filesystems and partitions.

3.Consider , I want to shrink  /dev/hda1, so I mark it and click on Resize/Move.

4.Enter the desired size of the partition you need to create.

5.As you see, /dev/hda1 has been shrinked, and the new, free space is unallocated:

6.So you need to have a new filesystem , click new , enter size of the partition and select the filesystem , here let me choose NTFS and click add.

7.You have a new partition.

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The era of Linux operating systems and open source programs are coming closer.It is sure to make a bing bang in the history of computers.Considering case of virtualization opensource programs are far ahead .It is mainly because of its price and its open source codes.It is usually free of hard licensing considered to others.Here is a list of some well known Virtualization softwares available from the linux world.

1. OpenVZ is an operating system-level virtualization technology based on the Linux kernel and operating system.It can take care of more than one os at a tim e like other virtualization technologies.
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3. VirtualBox is an x86 virtualization environment , made by  Sun Microsystems as part of its Sun xVM virtualization platform. A lot of  host operating systems like Linux, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp, Windows XP or Vista, and Solaris, are supported in this. Supported guest operating systems include FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD, OS/2 Warp,linux Kernal 2.4/2.6, Windows and Solaris.It is great for home use and for testing programs which may other wise interfere with the os.
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5. Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a Linux kernel virtualization infrastructure. KVM currently supports native virtualization using Intel VT or AMD-V. A wide variety of guest operating systems work with KVM, including many flavours of Linux, BSD, Solaris, and Windows etc. KVM is included with Debian, OpenSuse and other Linux distributions.
6. Xen is a virtual machine monitor for 32 / 64 bit Intel / AMD (IA 64) and PowerPC 970 architectures. systems to be executed on the same . XEN is included with most popular Linux distributions such as Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL, Fedora and many others.It is very pleasant in its appeaance and easy to work with.It supports running several machines at the same time.
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8. Linux-VServer is a VPN  implementation done by adding operating system-level virtualization  to the Linux kernel making it an integral part of the operating system.
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   User Mode Linux (UML) was the first virtualization technology that was available  for the Linux Operating system.It has less performance and stability compared with others . Coming version support for x86 virtualization to UML may reduce this disadvantages.
10. VMWare is one of the leaders of virtualization technologies.It has extended to linux platforms .It is known for its advanced features.But a hefty price tag always follows.
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