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[...]
Links September 2020Links September 2020
MD5 cracker, find plain text that matches MD5 hash [1]. Debian Quick Image Baker – Debian VM images for various architectures [2]. Insightful article on Scientific American about how dental[...]
Burning Lithium Ion BatteriesBurning Lithium Ion Batteries
I had an old Nexus 4 phone that was expanding and decided to test some of the theories about battery combustion. The first claim that often gets made is that[...]
Dell BIOS UpdatesDell BIOS Updates
I have just updated the BIOS on a Dell PowerEdge T110 II. The process isn’t too difficult, Google for the machine name and BIOS, download a shell script encoded firmware[...]
More About the PowerEdge R710More About the PowerEdge R710
I’ve got the R710 (mentioned in my previous post [1]) online. When testing the R710 at home I noticed that sometimes the VGA monitor I was using would start flickering[...]
Setting Up a Dell R710 Server with DRAC6Setting Up a Dell R710 Server with DRAC6
I’ve just got a Dell R710 server for LUV and I’ve been playing with the configuration options. Here’s a list of what I’ve done and recommendations on how to do[...]
BBB vs JitsiBBB vs Jitsi
I previously wrote about how I installed the Jitsi video-conferencing system on Debian [1]. We used that for a few unofficial meetings of LUV to test it out. Then we[...]
Jitsi on DebianJitsi on Debian
I’ve just setup an instance of the Jitsi video-conference software for my local LUG. Here is an overview of how to set it up on Debian. Firstly create a new[...]
Links July 2020Links July 2020
iMore has an insightful article about Apple’s transition to the ARM instruction set for new Mac desktops and laptops [1]. I’d still like to see them do something for the[...]
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[...]