Virtualization technologies as an e-Learning support in the academic environment

Nowadays, the virtualization technologies are more and more often used in many informatics areas. They are applied for better utilization of existing hardware or software resources, servers' consolidation and for security reasons as well. This article shows how is possible to used the virtualization technology also in the academic environment as a support of laboratory exercises. The case study is based on the idea of publishing of the parallel software development environment running on a multi-core SW computer in academic course dealing with the parallel programming approaches and techniques, but can be applied to many others fields.