Category Archives: Virtualization

Good Friday 2025

Posted on April 18, 2025 by larry

As I post there are about 2 more hours left before midnight. I am still going strong though with the fasting. But it has not been an idle day, I embarked on upgrading an ancient Mediawiki circa 2016 to something … Continue reading →

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Kickstart Rocky 9 KVM Host

Posted on April 10, 2025 by larry

I am putting together a kickstart for a KVM host. It basically grabs a kickstart from the cloud http://my.apolonio.tech/linux/kvmhost95.cfg And builds a KVM host running MATE. Still doing some testing, will do a video. Weight: 342.0

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Break In Emergency

Posted on April 1, 2025 by larry

Came across an idea where I can put something like money in to a 3D printed device where you would have to break in order to read it. Found these things which would go in a keychain. There is a … Continue reading →

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Cloning VMs

Posted on March 28, 2025 by larry

I primarily kickstart VMs when I build them, and I will probably continue on with this process for long term production machines. But I sometimes need quick throw away machines. Recall it takes me 40 minutes to build a machine, … Continue reading →

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Time To Build A Linux Server

Posted on March 25, 2025 by larry

I just wanted to see how long it took me to build an Linux Server on my network from nothing. Patched, with LDAP and all the little requirements I have on my network. Here is the short answer 38 minutes … Continue reading →

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Didn’t Sleep Well Didn’t Matter

Posted on March 24, 2025 by larry

I had about 2 hours of sleep last night, I was ok though. Because I had a lot of rest in the bank so to say. What was surprising was I got my 10k steps and 10 floors. I was … Continue reading →

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Initial QEMU Kickstart

Posted on March 23, 2025 by larry

Been working a bit on my QEMU KVM kickstart today. Kind of fun hobby, enjoyed seeing it come together. I got the kickstart going and am working on a proper workflow to get this working. Got my weight officially under … Continue reading →

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Custom Qemu Kickstart

Posted on March 22, 2025 by larry

I want to refine my notes in getting a QEMU HOST server built and running. I already got something going and it looks ok, but not 100% I upgraded my test QEMU box with 36GB of RAM, tomorrow will start … Continue reading →

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Updated Prime Build

Posted on March 18, 2025 by larry

I think I got a good update as of today for my PRIME build with the latest home-assistant, cloudflared and pihole. I also got a quick setup build going on. It should be validated by tomorrow. Ironed out isssues with … Continue reading →

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Business Continuity

Posted on November 2, 2024 by larry

I am putting together items I need for business continuity. What they call a COOP, Continuity of operations Plan. I got an old network switch And a virtualization platform Still going through other things I need. Weight: 331.6

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