My target is to use a local shell to connect to my remote docker host on my home server, so that I can develop my Dockerfile or docker-compose files locally and easily deploy them to the remote machine, were they should run in the end. Configuration on the host I use systemd as system and […]
Virtualization
Gentoo Linux on Hyper-V
These days I faced to need to have a Gentoo Linux running on my local computer. Since I’m currently testing a lot of Stuff with Docker on my Windows 10 Pro I have Hyper-V active and other Hypervisors like Virtual Box or VMWare will not work. So these are the Steps how I got the […]
VMWare Workstation could not sync disk
I’m a Windows user primarily, but lately I had to use Linux quite a lot for my master’s thesis. So i thought „Why not use the best of both worlds?“. So in installed VMWares excelent virtualization Tool VMWare Workstation. I then added the whole disk as SCSI drive for the VM, did a few kernel […]
Windows Server 2012 R2 installation in KVM
Installing Windows Server 2012 R2 is very strait forward when using KVM. The biggest trouble I had was that the disk space was not allocated properly when creating the Virtualmachine, but otherwise there has been no hacking. Read the full article for further explanations.
Create Certificates for libvirt TLS
In order to generate the needed certificates one can either use the gnutls utils, like proposed on the libvirt homepage or use openssl, like I did. The following script was written to ease the creation of the certificates. It will create and copy the certificates to the appropriate place for libvirt to use with default […]