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Installing a desktop environment on the HP Omen
`dmidecode | grep -A8 ‘^System Information’` tells me that the Manufacturer is HP and Product Name is OMEN Transcend Gaming Laptop 14-fb0xxx I’m provisioning a new piece of hardware for my eng consultant and it’s proving more difficult than I expected. I must admit guilt for some of this difficulty. Instead of installing using the…
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IPv6 Multicast support on libvirt guests using macvtap
# # Debian / libvirt # # By default, qemu guests network interfaces are created with the # trustGuestRxFilters attribute set to no. This setting blocks # neighbor solicitation and other ipv6 multicast traffic. To enable # neighbor solicitations, modify your interface definition in your # guest definition XML. # For example if you have…
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Converting a windows install to a libvirt VM
Reduce the size of your c: partition to the smallest it can be and then turn off windows with the understanding that you will never boot this system on the iron ever again. Boot into a netinst installer image (no GUI). hold alt and press left arrow a few times until you get to a…
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Instructions for installing Proxmox onto the Qotom device
These instructions are for qotom devices Q515P and Q1075GE. You can order one from Amazon or directly from Cherry Ni <export03@qotom.com>. Instructions are for those coming from Windows. Prerequisites: A USB keyboard and mouse A powered HDMI monitor and an HDMI cable A copy of the Proxmox VE Installer ISO A USB disk from which…
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OpenDaylight Symposium 2016
I’ll write this later. Keywords and notes inline Cloud 5G AT&T Ericsson SDN FD.io Cisco Intel Linux Debian Ubuntu Open Source Hydrogen Helium Lithium OSI stack Usability Developers and users working together. Fast Dev/Test cycles Sessions start at 10:30 Message bus Minimal install needs to be smaller Most functionalities must be implemented in modules Upgrade…
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virt manager cannot find suitable emulator for x86 64
Looks like I was missing qemu-kvm. $ sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm qemu-system
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Some work on a VyOS image with Let’s Encrypt certs
I put some packages together this weekend. It’s been a while since I’ve debuilt anything officially. libffi-platypus-perl libalien-base-perl libalien-ffi-perl libffi-checklib-perl libshell-config-generate-perl libshell-guess-perl The plan is to build a binding to the libgnutls.so.30 API. The certtool CSR (REQ) generation interface does not allow me to create a CRL with “not critical” attributes set on purposes. Maybe…
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Juniper Olive VM XML
For use with http://web.dit.upm.es/vnxwiki/index.php/Vnx-rootfsolive and http://blog.gns3.net/2009/10/olive-juniper/2/ $ cd /var/lib/libvirt/images $ sudo qemu-img create -f qcow2 vnx_rootfs_olive.qcow2 7G $ sudo wget ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.11/4.11-RELEASE-i386-miniinst.iso $ sudo brctl addbr testnet $ sudo ip addr add 172.18.36.2/24 dev testnet $ sudo ip link set up dev testnet $ wget -O /tmp/olive.xml https://wp.colliertech.org/cj/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/olive.xml $ sudo virsh define /tmp/olive.xml $ sudo virsh…
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AD Physical to Virtual conversion… Continued!
So I wasn’t able to complete the earlier attempt to boot the VM. Something to do with the SATA backplane not having enough juice to keep both my 6-disk array and the w2k8 disk online at the same time. I had to dd the contents off of the w2k8 disk and send it to the…
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Windows is *still* loading files
I’m moving the active directory server off of hardware on to the hypervisor. I think if I boot the drive as USB I can install the virtio disk drivers on the system. Fingers crossed! Only thing is that this first boot off of a USB device takes *sooooo* long!