Re: Continuous integration with Debian virtual machines

On Mon, 27 May 2024 10:00:02 + André Rodier wrote: Hello André, >Anyone know a hosting service, like GitHub or GitLab, offering recent >Debian You asked, and were answered, yesterday. It would be preferable to continue in that thread, rather than start a new one. -- Regards _ "Va

Continuous integration with Debian virtual machines

Dear Debian users, Anyone know a hosting service, like GitHub or GitLab, offering recent Debian virtual machines to run tests ? The last time I checked, they offered old Ubuntu versions or docker images, but I need a full Debian VM. For contextual information, the source code is here: https

Re: Continuous integration with Debian virtual machines

> Anyone know a hosting service, like GitHub or GitLab, offering recent Debian > virtual machines to run tests ? I'd expect most of them do, but at least SourceHut does according to https://man.sr.ht/builds.sr.ht/compatibility.md#debian Stefan

Re: Continuous integration with Debian virtual machines

On 26/5/24 18:35, André Rodier wrote: Dear Debian users, Anyone know a hosting service, like GitHub or GitLab, offering recent Debian virtual machines to run tests ? The last time I checked, they offered old Ubuntu versions or docker images, but I need a full Debian VM. For contextual

Continuous integration with Debian virtual machines

Dear Debian users, Anyone know a hosting service, like GitHub or GitLab, offering recent Debian virtual machines to run tests ? The last time I checked, they offered old Ubuntu versions or docker images, but I need a full Debian VM. For contextual information, the source code is here: https

Re: 10 year old machines are slow (was: A hypervisor for a headless server?)

On 2023-06-02, Bret Busby wrote: > > Whoever posted the message to which the above message is a reply, is An enduring mystery to know why Monnier refuses the convention of attributions. Then again, one of the smaller mysteries.

Re: 10 year old machines are slow (was: A hypervisor for a headless server?)

Bret Busby wrote: > > Whoever posted the message to which the above message is a reply, is showing > a lack of knowledge of computers; the "speed" of a computer, involves more > components than simply the CPU - an i9 with 2GB of RAM, will probably not be > as "fast" as in i3 with 32GB of RAM. T

Re: 10 year old machines are slow (was: A hypervisor for a headless server?)

On 6/2/23 12:19, Stefan Monnier wrote: The most recent general-purpose Intel CPU without VT-X is from 2012. [...] *everything* on processors that old is slow. Actually, for many (most?) single-threaded applications, I wouldn't be surprised if some 2010 CPUs end up within a factor 3 of the mos

Re: 10 year old machines are slow (was: A hypervisor for a headless server?)

On 3/6/23 03:19, Stefan Monnier wrote: The most recent general-purpose Intel CPU without VT-X is from 2012. [...] *everything* on processors that old is slow. Actually, for many (most?) single-threaded applications, I wouldn't be surprised if some 2010 CPUs end up within a factor 3 of the mos

Re: 10 year old machines are slow (was: A hypervisor for a headless server?)

Stefan Monnier wrote: > > The most recent general-purpose Intel CPU without VT-X is from 2012. > [...] > > *everything* on processors that old is slow. > > Actually, for many (most?) single-threaded applications, I wouldn't be > surprised if some 2010 CPUs end up within a factor 3 of the most bad

10 year old machines are slow (was: A hypervisor for a headless server?)

> The most recent general-purpose Intel CPU without VT-X is from 2012. [...] > *everything* on processors that old is slow. Actually, for many (most?) single-threaded applications, I wouldn't be surprised if some 2010 CPUs end up within a factor 3 of the most badass desktop you can find today.

Re: cups not sharing printers with other bullseye machines

ressed to cups from my local 192.168/xx.yy network? >>> >>> The problem is: other buster machines on this local network can see and >>> use the two brother printers just as if the printer was local to that >>> buster machine. >>> >>> But no bullse

Re: cups not sharing printers with other bullseye machines

On 4/8/23 02:40, Gareth Evans wrote: On Sat 8 Apr 2023, at 03:20, gene heskett wrote: Greetings all; Where do I turn on cups debugging so I'll see every bit of traffic addressed to cups from my local 192.168/xx.yy network? The problem is: other buster machines on this local network ca

Re: cups not sharing printers with other bullseye machines

On 4/8/23 02:40, Gareth Evans wrote: On Sat 8 Apr 2023, at 03:20, gene heskett wrote: Greetings all; Where do I turn on cups debugging so I'll see every bit of traffic addressed to cups from my local 192.168/xx.yy network? The problem is: other buster machines on this local network ca

Re: cups not sharing printers with other bullseye machines

On Sat 8 Apr 2023, at 03:20, gene heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > Where do I turn on cups debugging so I'll see every bit of traffic > addressed to cups from my local 192.168/xx.yy network? > > The problem is: other buster machines on this local network can see and

cups not sharing printers with other bullseye machines

Greetings all; Where do I turn on cups debugging so I'll see every bit of traffic addressed to cups from my local 192.168/xx.yy network? The problem is: other buster machines on this local network can see and use the two brother printers just as if the printer was local to that b

Re: Reports of boot failure after installing linux-image-5.10.0-19-amd64, on machines with AMD graphics

David composed on 2022-10-19 18:40 (UTC-0400): > Just a general warning, for anyone who has not noticed, that > installing the latest kernel (linux-image-5.10.0-19-amd64) on a > machine with AMD graphics is causing numerous people to > report boot failures: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugre

Re: Reports of boot failure after installing linux-image-5.10.0-19-amd64, on machines with AMD graphics

gi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1022025 > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1022042 > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1022051 Thanks! By pure chance, I have only updated machines without amdgpu graphics so far. Looks like you've saved me some panic. -dsr-

Reports of boot failure after installing linux-image-5.10.0-19-amd64, on machines with AMD graphics

Hello list, Just a general warning, for anyone who has not noticed, that installing the latest kernel (linux-image-5.10.0-19-amd64) on a machine with AMD graphics is causing numerous people to report boot failures: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1022025 https://bugs.debian.org/

Re: Rant: The need for books to document things (was: Re: Virtual Machines)

On Montag, 22. August 2022 14:47:15 -04 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 01:58:57PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Monday, August 22, 2022 08:50:02 AM Tom Browder wrote: > > > Can anyone recommend a good book on the general topic of VMs? Or > > > one on a specific VM stac

Re: Rant: The need for books to document things (was: Re: Virtual Machines)

On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 01:58:57PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, August 22, 2022 08:50:02 AM Tom Browder wrote: > > Can anyone recommend a good book on the general topic of VMs? Or one on a > > specific VM stack (using Linux as base)? > > At this point, I've requested two books on

Re: Rant: The need for books to document things (was: Re: Virtual Machines)

On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 01:58:57PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: It just seems documentation ought to be better / simpler / easier to use than that. There's an inverse correlation between completeness and simplicity. If you don't want to read a 700 page book, the other alternative is to sp

Rant: The need for books to document things (was: Re: Virtual Machines)

On Monday, August 22, 2022 08:50:02 AM Tom Browder wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good book on the general topic of VMs? Or one on a > specific VM stack (using Linux as base)? I applaud someone wanting / willing to read a book ;-) (I'm smiling, but I am serious.) I also applaud the recommedati

Fwd: Virtual Machines

Arg, forgot again (maybe I can blame my iPhone) -- Forwarded message - From: Tom Browder Date: Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 12:04 Subject: Re: Virtual Machines To: Chuck Zmudzinski On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 11:09 Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > On 8/22/2022 8:50 AM, Tom Browder wr

Re: Virtual Machines

On 8/22/2022 8:50 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good book on the general topic of VMs? Or one on a > specific VM stack (using Linux as  base)? > > Thanks. > > -Tom This looks like a comprehensive and reasonably up-to-date online book: https://linuxhandbook.com/virtualization/

Virtual Machines

Can anyone recommend a good book on the general topic of VMs? Or one on a specific VM stack (using Linux as base)? Thanks. -Tom

Re: Monitoring which of a list of machines is up

ote: Hi, I want to monitor a half dozen machines and have a screen with a green dot for those that are up and a red dot for those that are down. For this it's enough that they're responding to pings. Half the machines are Linux half are not. Any suggestions? Bijan

Re: Monitoring which of a list of machines is up

Bijan Soleymani wrote: > I want to monitor a half dozen machines and have a screen with a green dot > for those that are up and a red dot for those that are down. For this it's > enough that they're responding to pings. Half the machines are Linux half > are not. A go

Re: Monitoring which of a list of machines is up

On Sat, Jul 2, 2022 at 1:44 AM Bijan Soleymani wrote: > Hi, > > I want to monitor a half dozen machines and have a screen with a green > dot for those that are up and a red dot for those that are down. For > this it's enough that they're responding to pings. Half the

Re: Monitoring which of a list of machines is up

https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma On 2 July 2022 07:44:30 CEST, Bijan Soleymani wrote: >Hi, > >I want to monitor a half dozen machines and have a screen with a green dot for >those that are up and a red dot for those that are down. For this it's enough >that they&#x

Monitoring which of a list of machines is up

Hi, I want to monitor a half dozen machines and have a screen with a green dot for those that are up and a red dot for those that are down. For this it's enough that they're responding to pings. Half the machines are Linux half are not. Any suggestions? Bijan

Re: Recommendations for data layout in case of multiple machines (Was: Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time)

r file server? Is it running 24/7 or started as needed? Just another Debian machine, which does run all the time. I realise that is not an option for everyone and is probably a big / excessive step for someone who only has one machine. At first I only did it because I'm a nerd. Over time, lots

Recommendations for data layout in case of multiple machines (Was: Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time)

ilar stuff that looks for stuff in /home/ that > would > need to be modifed. For anyone with a number of machines, like Gene, there is a lot to be said for having one be in the role of file server. - One place to have a ton of storage, which isn't a usual role for a simple desktop

Re: How to manage a firewall script with minor tweaks for different machines?

out to be the solution for different firewall configs on different machines.

Re: How to manage a firewall script with minor tweaks for different machines?

john doe writes: > You could have one common file that includes a custum file (1). > You would have one custum file per host (custum-cups, custum-smb ...). Right, thanks. I missed the whole include ability in nftables.

Re: How to manage a firewall script with minor tweaks for different machines?

iguration management software. You already have several machines by the sounds of it, so it's a good time to look in to it. Ansible can be very simple and quick to learn and everything you've mentioned in your post can easily be done with it. I found Puppet a bit of a nicer thing to develop

Re: How to manage a firewall script with minor tweaks for different machines?

On 6/12/2021 6:02 PM, Anssi Saari wrote: I've recently setup nftables firewalls on the machines of my little home network. I was a little optimistic and thought I could get by with a simple one that only allows ssh and nfs in i.e. two TCP ports and mDNS with its slightly more complex

Re: How to manage a firewall script with minor tweaks for different machines?

Anssi Saari wrote: > I also need some way of pushing these firewall scripts and other config > stuff over to the machines too. It's not a huge network but manually > logging into each machine, overwriting /etc/nftables.conf and restarting > nftables.service is a pain. cdist look

How to manage a firewall script with minor tweaks for different machines?

I've recently setup nftables firewalls on the machines of my little home network. I was a little optimistic and thought I could get by with a simple one that only allows ssh and nfs in i.e. two TCP ports and mDNS with its slightly more complex rules. But then... One machine has a radius s

Re: dhcp bridge for virtual machines using KVM

On 9/23/20 2:25 AM, Fabien Roucaute wrote: Le 22/09/2020 à 22:57, James Allsopp a écrit : On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 at 17:58, Fabien Roucaute mailto:fabien.rouca...@free.fr>> wrote: Le 22/09/2020 à 18:50, James Allsopp a écrit : > > I've tried that but I get the same result. >

Re: dhcp bridge for virtual machines using KVM

On 9/23/2020 3:14 PM, Fabien Roucaute wrote: Le 23/09/2020 à 13:50, James Allsopp a écrit : Yes, it's a bit odd,but the reason I want to do it like this is that the wifi is pretty fast and the ethernet is constrained by powerline networking to about 50Mbps. However, I can't run a bridge over th

Re: dhcp bridge for virtual machines using KVM

Le 23/09/2020 à 13:50, James Allsopp a écrit : > Yes, it's a bit odd,but the reason I want to do it like this is that the > wifi is pretty fast and the ethernet is constrained by powerline > networking to about 50Mbps. However, I can't run a bridge over the wifi, > so I'm trying to run all the hos

Re: dhcp bridge for virtual machines using KVM

On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 at 22:30, Lucas Castro wrote: > > On 9/22/20 5:54 PM, James Allsopp wrote: > > > > On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 at 19:47, Lucas Castro wrote: > >> >> On 9/22/20 1:26 PM, James Allsopp wrote: >> > Hi, >> > I've got a computer that I'm running debian 10 on with KVM. The >> > machine is

Re: dhcp bridge for virtual machines using KVM

Le 22/09/2020 à 22:57, James Allsopp a écrit : > > > On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 at 17:58, Fabien Roucaute > wrote: > > Le 22/09/2020 à 18:50, James Allsopp a écrit : > > > > I've tried that but I get the same result. > > Thanks > > James > > > >

Re: dhcp bridge for virtual machines using KVM

On 9/22/20 5:54 PM, James Allsopp wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 at 19:47, Lucas Castro > wrote: On 9/22/20 1:26 PM, James Allsopp wrote: > Hi, > I've got a computer that I'm running debian 10 on with KVM. The > machine is connected to a OpenWRT ro

Re: dhcp bridge for virtual machines using KVM

On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 at 17:58, Fabien Roucaute wrote: > Le 22/09/2020 à 18:50, James Allsopp a écrit : > > > > I've tried that but I get the same result. > > Thanks > > James > > > > You need to answer to the mailing-list email address, not mine. > If it still doesn't work, we need more informatio

Re: dhcp bridge for virtual machines using KVM

On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 at 19:47, Lucas Castro wrote: > > On 9/22/20 1:26 PM, James Allsopp wrote: > > Hi, > > I've got a computer that I'm running debian 10 on with KVM. The > > machine is connected to a OpenWRT router which provides DHCP and DNS > > to the network, via a wifi link used for the host

Re: dhcp bridge for virtual machines using KVM

On 9/22/20 1:26 PM, James Allsopp wrote: Hi, I've got a computer that I'm running debian 10 on with KVM. The machine is connected to a OpenWRT router which provides DHCP and DNS to the network, via a wifi link used for the host and an ethernet connection on eth1 used for a bridge Is your O

Re: dhcp bridge for virtual machines using KVM

Le 22/09/2020 à 18:50, James Allsopp a écrit : > > I've tried that but I get the same result. > Thanks > James > You need to answer to the mailing-list email address, not mine. If it still doesn't work, we need more information, like the result of the following commands (you should modify the pu

Re: dhcp bridge for virtual machines using KVM

Le 22/09/2020 à 18:26, James Allsopp a écrit : > Hi, > I've got a computer that I'm running debian 10 on with KVM. The machine > is connected to a OpenWRT router which provides DHCP and DNS to the > network, via a wifi link used for the host and an ethernet connection on > eth1 used for a bridge >

dhcp bridge for virtual machines using KVM

Hi, I've got a computer that I'm running debian 10 on with KVM. The machine is connected to a OpenWRT router which provides DHCP and DNS to the network, via a wifi link used for the host and an ethernet connection on eth1 used for a bridge I've set this file up for the bridge in /etc/network/inter

Re: Re: Re: Mouse awfully slow on Debian 10 on certain machines

> Hello list, I did some further research. In particular I used the live-ISO-image of > Buster (amd64) >on DVD and bootet the system. And I found the following: > Mouse still is irrational. It works fine, when no application has started after logging. > When then an application is started (in

Re: Re: Mouse awfully slow on Debian 10 on certain machines

Hello list, I did some further research. In particular I used the live-ISO-image of Buster (amd64) on DVD and bootet the system. And I found the following: Mouse still is irrational. It works fine, when no application has startet after logging. When then an application is started (in this case

AW: Re: Re: Mouse awfully slow on Debian 10 on certain machines

- www.kampmannpeine.orgwww.researchgate.net/profile/Joerg_Kampmann  === Ursprüngliche Nachricht Von: Jörg Kampmann Datum: 03.05.20 13:08 (GMT+01:00) An: geo...@nsup.org Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Betreff: Re: Re: Mouse awfully slow on Debian 10 on certain machines

Re: Mouse awfully slow on Debian 10 on certain machines

On Sun 03 May 2020 at 13:08:26 (+0200), Jörg Kampmann wrote: > > In order to test your suggestions I tried them under Debian 9 - 32-Bit > -  however these programs do not exist on my debian 9  - neither > xinput and for *libinput* I found: > > bash: libinput: Kommando nicht gefunden.  #*--- comma

Re: Re: Mouse awfully slow on Debian 10 on certain machines

thanks a lot In order to test your suggestions I tried them under Debian 9 - 32-Bit -  however these programs do not exist on my debian 9  - neither xinput and for *libinput* I found: bash: libinput: Kommando nicht gefunden.  #*--- command not found* root@primergy:/home/kampmann# whereis libi

Re: Mouse awfully slow on Debian 10 on certain machines

Jörg Kampmann wrote: > I installed Debian 10 on my Fujitsu TX 100 S1 (64 and 32 Bit possible) > with debian 64. After that I observed: the mouse pointer is awfully > slow. Therefore I went back to Debian 9 32-bit. > > On a HP-Pavillon 64-bit Debian 10 works just fine. > > Anybody knows about th

Re: Mouse awfully slow on Debian 10 on certain machines

Siard (12020-04-29): > The Identifier can be found in the output of 'xinput list'. > So replace the above value of Identifier with yours. And the changes can be tested on the fly with xinput --set-prop, no need to restart the X11 server just to check if the speed setting is satisfactory. Regards,

Re: Mouse awfully slow on Debian 10 on certain machines

Jörg Kampmann wrote: > I installed Debian 10 on my Fujitsu TX 100 S1 (64 and 32 Bit possible) > with debian 64. After that I observed: the mouse pointer is awfully > slow. Therefore I went back to Debian 9 32-bit. > > On a HP-Pavillon 64-bit Debian 10 works just fine. > > Anybody knows about th

Mouse awfully slow on Debian 10 on certain machines

Hello list, I installed Debian 10 on my Fujitsu TX 100 S1 (64 and 32 Bit possible) with debian 64. After that I observed: the mouse pointer is awfully slow. Therefore I went back to Debian 9 32-bit. On a HP-Pavillon 64-bit Debian 10 works just fine. Anybody knows about this problem? What can

Re: strange behaviour with RDP clients connecting to Windows 10 machines

On 14.06.2019 17:41, Gary Dale wrote: > On 2019-06-14 3:45 a.m., Curt wrote: >> On 2019-06-14, john doe wrote: >>> Not realy an answer, depending on what you need vnc for, one >>> alternative >>> would be to use Cygwin as an ssh server on the Windows boxes. >> >> He might try removing ~/.config/fr

Re: strange behaviour with RDP clients connecting to Windows 10 machines

On 2019-06-14 3:45 a.m., Curt wrote: On 2019-06-14, john doe wrote: Not realy an answer, depending on what you need vnc for, one alternative would be to use Cygwin as an ssh server on the Windows boxes. He might try removing ~/.config/freerdp/known_hosts (after backing it up) or commenting ou

Re: strange behaviour with RDP clients connecting to Windows 10 machines

ows 10 "feature" that it doesn't allow VNC connections when the monitor is turned off (or not attached). I enabled Remote Desktop services on both machines and can connect to them when the monitor is off using RDP. However, even though I installed the same version of Windows 10/Pro on

Re: strange behaviour with RDP clients connecting to Windows 10 machines

On 2019-06-14, john doe wrote: > > Not realy an answer, depending on what you need vnc for, one alternative > would be to use Cygwin as an ssh server on the Windows boxes. He might try removing ~/.config/freerdp/known_hosts (after backing it up) or commenting out or deleting the offending host k

Re: strange behaviour with RDP clients connecting to Windows 10 machines

ature" that it doesn't allow VNC connections when the monitor is > turned off (or not attached). > > I enabled Remote Desktop services on both machines and can connect to > them when the monitor is off using RDP. However, even though I installed > the same version of Windows 10/Pro on

strange behaviour with RDP clients connecting to Windows 10 machines

monitor is turned off (or not attached). I enabled Remote Desktop services on both machines and can connect to them when the monitor is off using RDP. However, even though I installed the same version of Windows 10/Pro on each, they behave differently. One was a long drawn out slug fest to get t

Re: Print Queues and KVM/virt-manager virtual Windows machines

should be able to > communicate with it via a virtual port that the hypervisor provides. Virtualization can only be done based on higher-level knowledge of the protocol. But yes: you should be able to "pass" this particular USB device to one of your virtual machines. > The problem

Re: Print Queues and KVM/virt-manager virtual Windows machines

On 2018-06-10 04:48 PM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 03:21:45PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: I have printers attached via USB to my Debian/Stretch server and also one that also has an ethernet connection. The problem I'm having is that the virtual machines seem to grab excl

Re: Print Queues and KVM/virt-manager virtual Windows machines

Hi. On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 03:21:45PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > I have printers attached via USB to my Debian/Stretch server and also one > that also has an ethernet connection. The problem I'm having is that the > virtual machines seem to grab exclusive access to the prin

Print Queues and KVM/virt-manager virtual Windows machines

I have printers attached via USB to my Debian/Stretch server and also one that also has an ethernet connection. The problem I'm having is that the virtual machines seem to grab exclusive access to the printers, so I can print from my Linux (Debian/Buster) workstation. The printers show i

Re: stretch not booting, on DELL machines

>> >>Thanks to him, a guy (kozaki) has done thorough research (see 1&2) to >>solve this problem. It is caused by a failed attempt to restore the LCD >>backlight at boot. Passing 'systemd.restore_state=0' kernel parameter at >>boot is a solution. >> >>1) https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/47509 >>2) ht

Re: OT: Just a question - building live systems for arm on intel machines?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 04:11:32PM +0200, Hans wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 21. Juni 2017, 16:01:31 CEST schrieb to...@tuxteam.de: > Hi Tomas, > > thanks for this quick response. Well, I just do not want to compile something > (however, I believe, some bina

Re: OT: Just a question - building live systems for arm on intel machines?

Am Mittwoch, 21. Juni 2017, 16:01:31 CEST schrieb to...@tuxteam.de: Hi Tomas, thanks for this quick response. Well, I just do not want to compile something (however, I believe, some binary packages do this at installing, don't they?), just unpack packages to a chroot. But you may be right: The

Re: OT: Just a question - building live systems for arm on intel machines?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 03:49:16PM +0200, Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > sorry, to ask here, but I do not know where to ask else. > > Just a question: Is it possible, to build live-file systems with live-build > for > arm64 cpu's on an intel based sy

OT: Just a question - building live systems for arm on intel machines?

Hi folks, sorry, to ask here, but I do not know where to ask else. Just a question: Is it possible, to build live-file systems with live-build for arm64 cpu's on an intel based system like i386 or amd64? And can I build amd64 live-file systems on an i386 system? And vice versa, is it possible

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

> "Unti recently" because there now is a way to do data retention, but: > "bup only has experimental support for pruning old backups." Indeed, it's a relatively new feature, but it's been working fine in my tests. Stefan

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> However, the virtual hard disk is a pretty large size. My method >>> compresses it further so that the size of the backup is much >>> smaller. >> Have a look at "borg". It is ideal to backup VMs (or anything using >> large files with only marginal changes inside) and I

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

>> However, the virtual hard disk is a pretty large size. My method >> compresses it further so that the size of the backup is much smaller. > Have a look at "borg". It is ideal to backup VMs (or anything using > large files with only marginal changes inside) and I have been using it > for my Virtu

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

RavenLX wrote: > However, the virtual hard disk is a pretty large size. My method > compresses it further so that the size of the backup is much smaller. Have a look at "borg". It is ideal to backup VMs (or anything using large files with only marginal changes inside) and I have been using it fo

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

On 05/18/2017 09:35 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: This is the most unbelievable overkill. Windows VMs work just fine in VirtualBox. When it comes to backup, I have my backup scripts check the machines are down and if they are, include the virtual disks in the main system backup, and if not, skip them

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

> Yes for VM it is possible only if you use ESX server and licensed VM Ware Then better use Free Software, such as kvm, VirtualBox, ... Stefan

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

>> There are the so called snapshots, which you can make and then include in >> your back up. No need to down the VM. [...] > I may be wrong but I don't think snapshots can be scheduled, but rather > must be initiated I have no idea what that means. The way it normally works is that you have a

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 11:03:56PM +0200, deloptes wrote: >> craigswin wrote: >> >> > Can you expand on that?  New to VMs, considering them as an alternative >> > to dualboot, with Stretch as host and Win7 as a guest to run >> > Vectorworks. >> >> VMs come with a penalty i

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

Mark Fletcher wrote: > I may be wrong but I don't think snapshots can be scheduled, but rather > must be initiated -- so not really suitable for an automated backup > solution. And as the conventional wisdom goes, if a backup isn't > automated, you're not doing a backup. > Yes for VM it is possi

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 11:03:56PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > craigswin wrote: > > > Can you expand on that?  New to VMs, considering them as an alternative > > to dualboot, with Stretch as host and Win7 as a guest to run Vectorworks. > > VMs come with a penalty in performance and functionality >

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 11:10:00PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 12:57:57PM -0400, RavenLX wrote: > >> On 05/17/2017 12:42 PM, craigswin wrote: > >> > > >> > > >> >On 05/17/2017 06:03 AM, RavenLX wrote: > >> > > There are the so called snapshots, whi

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

very slow with updates on a virtual machine. >> > > This is the most unbelievable overkill. Windows VMs work just fine in > VirtualBox. When it comes to backup, I have my backup scripts check the > machines are down and if they are, include the virtual disks in the main > system back

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

craigswin wrote: > Can you expand on that?  New to VMs, considering them as an alternative > to dualboot, with Stretch as host and Win7 as a guest to run Vectorworks. VMs come with a penalty in performance and functionality, but assuming Vectorworks runs on the pure windows machine it may run in

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

On Thursday, May 18, 2017 09:35:48 AM Mark Fletcher wrote: > This is the most unbelievable overkill. Windows VMs work just fine in > VirtualBox. When it comes to backup, I have my backup scripts check the > machines are down and if they are, include the virtual disks in the main > s

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ws and having to take half a day or > more to reinstall everything, including programs, etc. and updates, etc. > etc. > > Windows 10, at least, is very slow with updates on a virtual machine. > This is the most unbelievable overkill. Windows VMs work just fine in VirtualBox. When

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

On 05/17/2017 12:42 PM, craigswin wrote: On 05/17/2017 06:03 AM, RavenLX wrote: Those Windows VMs though are a pain. Just warning you. If you don't absolutely NEED one, I'd advise not even bothering. I'm seriously considering just deleting mine. Can you expand on that? New to VMs, conside

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

On 05/17/2017 06:03 AM, RavenLX wrote: Those Windows VMs though are a pain. Just warning you. If you don't absolutely NEED one, I'd advise not even bothering. I'm seriously considering just deleting mine. Can you expand on that? New to VMs, considering them as an alternative to dualboot,

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Raven, Thanks! Randy Kramer On Wednesday, May 17, 2017 09:03:51 AM RavenLX wrote: --< good stuff snipped >--

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On 05/14/2017 07:51 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I've never used a VM but I wanted to ask some newbie questions about them. I regularly use Virtual Machines quite a lot for testing purposes. I'll be glad to cover your questions. For these questions, I'll be answering them

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unning Debian Sid on a 12 MiB Dell with a TB SSD. Then on top of that I'm running VirtualBox (aptitude install virtualbox). Within that app, I've created several virtual machines (4 GiB RAM, 120 GiB drive, 64M video RAM, etc). For each one, you turn it on, and it's just like tur

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On 14/05/17 23:51, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: * Can I C&P between (applicatons in) different VMs and/or the base OS? While you can do this in emulators like VMWare Player, QEMU does not support it. A popular solution for QEMU is Spice . A sim

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

On 15/05/17 02:27, Thomas Schmitt wrote: For my VMs which shall be operated without graphics screen, i let qemu forward a host port (here 4567) to port 22 of the guest, where a SSH server will be set up by installation to offer login: qemu-system-x86_64 ... \ -net nic -net

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On Sun, 14 May 2017 07:51:18 -0400 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I've never used a VM but I wanted to ask some newbie questions about > them. Then first you should read the manual and the FAQs. Here's the link to the Documentation page for VirtualBox, one of the more popular and easy to set up V

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Hi, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > * Is it right to consider that there is somehow a base OS Normally there is a single real computer with its OS that runs virtual computers as "guests". (The Cloud might have its own habits to host VMs.) > I'm guessing that the machine boots first into the hyperv

Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

I've never used a VM but I wanted to ask some newbie questions about them. Currently, I don't see much use for one--I haven't had to run Windows in a very long time, which is a good thing--I used to have to occasionally run Windows to do something that, at the time, I couldn't do in Linux--oh,

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