Category Archives: Virtualization

End Of Summer 2025

Posted on September 21, 2025 by larry

Technically still summer, tomorrow will be last day, but we are going to go to the Washington State Fair. I got the tickets at least. Going to go with a mission, because it will be late and we don’t have … Continue reading →

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Production VMs on KVM

Posted on September 20, 2025 by larry

Pretty big accomplishment, the first was a simple DNS server, then was a little bit harder with the main LDAP server. But the tough one, which I knew was going to be it was the Unifi Network Application server. I … Continue reading →

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Playing With QEMU KVM

Posted on September 18, 2025 by larry

Now that I got 1 QEMU server going, planning on getting more. Probably another production one and a development one. It is cool, I got a pair of Linux templates on my QEMU server now and am ready to move … Continue reading →

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First Production KVM Host

Posted on September 17, 2025 by larry

Got my first production KVM host built, this is based on a Lenovo M910Q, has a quality NVME storage for VMs and a cheaper 256GB SSD for the OS. There is a USB Ethernet for management while the onboard one … Continue reading →

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Vlans on QEMU-KVM

Posted on September 16, 2025 by larry

Cool. I figured out how to configure my KVM host to use a trunked VLAN for multiple subnet access. I can now land a VM on any subnet. Still reviewing if my process is right but here is a script. … Continue reading →

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ESXi to KVM

Posted on September 15, 2025 by larry

Taking the first steps in getting VMs on to a Rocky 9 box in production. This will lead to my migration off of ESXi. Doesn’t look like it will be an easy or quick journey, trying to figure out how … Continue reading →

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Weekend To Do List

Posted on September 14, 2025 by larry

Like most weekends lately, I have setup a todo list, this is one weekend I felt like I got a lot done. One thing was cleaning up the office, although not completely done, looking much better, but I did sacrifice … Continue reading →

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Status on Demo Network

Posted on July 31, 2025 by larry

I am going to call home assistant good in my demo network. It is done, I am ok where it is at. Just finished monitoring, specifically nagios as well. Last thing is the Certificate Services and Securing. But with that, … Continue reading →

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Exhausting Productive Rewarding Day

Posted on July 29, 2025 by larry

One of those days that finished was fulfilling, got a lot done and next thing you know it work was over. I checked my steps and I had less than a thousand. Here I am nearly 11PM and still need … Continue reading →

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Revisit Linked Clones

Posted on July 28, 2025 by larry

Been exploring cloning in qemu/kvm and looked at cloning images. Building throw away VMs is fast now. Combine that with ansible and it is possible to spin up machines quickly. Still need to get backups going right. Kind of exhausted … Continue reading →

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