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==Intro==
The following tutorial is a pretty advanced topic. I will attemmpt attempt to do my best in being as clear as possible but you need to be warned that if you have not worked with Linux for very long you might get lost.
For a few years now the Linux kernel has had the ability to run virtual machines natively. Most people think of Vmware or Virtual Box when they want to run virtual machines. These are good products and have come a long way in making virtualization a reality. While it is possible to get these products for "free" and use them there are drawbacks to using these products. For the most part these mainstream products are streamlined and present a nice gui to an end user. These usually do a good job in making the complex task of virtualizing a machine simple but there are drawbacks. The "free" versions usually disable some really nice features like "snapshots" or they might restrict the amount of resources that can be assigned to a Virtual Machine.
==Here We Go==
Please make sure to follow these steps because you can blow away your system. I have a space spare PC I am using for this so I am not worried about any data.
* First you have to fire up virt-manager. This is a gui based tool and the following steps will all utilize the gui. There are a ''ton'' more options in the cli but we are going to keep in simple here.
