Minikube and DebianMinikube and Debian
I just started looking at the Kubernetes documentation and interactive tutorial [1], which incidentally is really good. Everyone who is developing a complex system should look at this to get[...]
Category: Virtualisation
Virtualisation and cloud computing
Qemu (KVM) and 9P (Virtfs) MountsQemu (KVM) and 9P (Virtfs) Mounts
I’ve tried setting up the Qemu (in this case KVM as it uses the Qemu code in question) 9P/Virtfs filesystem for sharing files to a VM. Here is the Qemu[...]
Windows 10 on Debian under KVMWindows 10 on Debian under KVM
Here are some things that you need to do to get Windows 10 running on a Debian host under KVM. UEFI Booting UEFI is big and complex, but most of[...]
Debian PPC64EL EmulationDebian PPC64EL Emulation
In my post on Debian S390X Emulation [1] I mentioned having problems booting a Debian PPC64EL kernel under QEMU. Giovanni commented that they had PPC64EL working and gave a link[...]
Debian S390X EmulationDebian S390X Emulation
I decided to setup some virtual machines for different architectures. One that I decided to try was S390X – the latest 64bit version of the IBM mainframe. Here’s how to[...]
Xen CPU Use per Domain againXen CPU Use per Domain again
8 years ago I wrote a script to summarise Xen CPU use per domain [1]. Since then changes to Xen required changes to the script. I have new versions for[...]
Dedicated vs Virtual ServersDedicated vs Virtual Servers
A common question about hosting is whether to use a dedicated server or a virtual server. Dedicated Servers If you use a dedicated server then you will face the risk[...]
Server Costs vs Virtual Server CostsServer Costs vs Virtual Server Costs
The Claim I have seen it claimed that renting a virtual server can be cheaper than paying for electricity on a server you own. So I’m going to analyse this[...]
Xen and Debian/SqueezeXen and Debian/Squeeze
Ben Hutchings announced that the Debian kernel team are now building Xen flavoured kernels for Debian/Unstable [1]. Thanks to Max Attems and the rest of the kernel team for this[...]
Starting with KVMStarting with KVM
I’ve just bought a new Thinkpad that has hardware virtualisation support and I’ve got KVM running. HugePages The Linux-KVM site has some information on using hugetlbfs to allow the use[...]