I'm moving from Proxmox to ESXi. Currently my server has 2 boot SSD's which are setup in raidz2 a mirrored vdev (ZFS) mainly to have some redundancy on my actual virtual machines.

I'm new to ESXi but I don't think this is possible even with traditional RAID. Would it be possible to boot ESXi from another drive and use the 2 SSD's in some form of mirrored RAID to store my virtual machines? I do backup my virtual machines but a bit of redundancy can't hurt right? This is only for homelab.

Hello you beautiful apes.

I wanted to make sure that everyone is aware that in case something were to happen, the DD (and much more than that) is preserved.

I wanted to briefly summarise a) the main posts where the updates are going to be kept.

My previous post here: WHich i will update with the new methodology

https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/riqxmu/ape_historian_what_do_you_need_beside_diamond/

THe main update and links of where to get everything is above.

I wanted to summarise the 5th way of getting the dd that seems to be working fine now. and may be a simple alternative to the ones below, with its own set of caveats.

Currently the 3 ways getting DD:

1- on reddit, via the dd flair or just scrolling2-if that fails there is a zedinstead library. you all know where it is or can find it.3-if that fails I have setup an IPFS mirror, but it appears that you need to then install IPFS desktop and set everything up, and as in the last 24 hours i have not had a single request for the files, i assume this isnt actually as popular4-There is also a magnet link there but I will not be keeping that alive as the method below is much simpler.

TLDR: Ive setup a decentralised way of sharing DD and the history of the GME. please read caveats before clicking buttons.

THe 5th way is via resilio sync - aka using torrent technology but with features of dropbox.

CAVEATS 1: please listen to the videos below first, to understand how it works. please also understand that unless you use a VPN, your ip will be visible to everyone who imports the key below. Please also note that your computer name will also be visible, just like in the photo below - if its your name or you want to change it then its up to you and its your responsibility to do it before you go ahead and do something like this.

Caveat 2:you will need the resilio sync client - if you want, you can install this client in a virtual machine (aka with virtual box), and then set a shared folder between the virtual machine and your host machine so you can copy the DD.

Caveat 3: the key that i am sharing with you is read only. so please dont add any files into the synced folder. it wont work. but if it were not read only - by adding files to the same folder you would then sync that folder across the entire swarm of accounts - which clearly isnt what

EDIT/UPDATE: THANK YOU ALL FOR THE QUICK RESPONSES AND HELP!!

Truly the power of Reddit/forums here. Uninstalled the update and that was the fix. I of course started trying to address the drivers, services, etc. issues vs looking at windows updates first. Problem resolved.

Woke up this morning to a series of emails from my cloud backup device notifying me it couldn't connect to our server. I'm supposed to go on vacation tomorrow and of course this wasn't on my agenda for today. Got into the office to find the physical server is running, but the two virtual machines, VM1=AD, DC, DNS, File Server, etc, VM2= SQL Database are down.

It appears at 2am a Windows update was installed and from then on nothing has worked.

I've tried the following:

-Reboot-Shut down / Restart-Started / Stopped services-Ran windows updates-Looked for issues with drivers-Uninstalled drivers then rebooted to have Windows re-install them. This actually didn't occur so I had to go in and manually install "legacy" drivers.-Verified the BIOS had Data Execution Prevention (DEP) enabled, as well as Virtualization turned on.

At this point I'm kind of stuck. If I open Hyper-V Manager I see the server, and the two virtual servers listed and they say STATUS= OFF. If I try and start them I get an error message saying:

"Cannot be started because the hypervisor is not running."

It seems to me the Hypervisor driver would be the issue, or the service but none of my efforts to fix those areas have lead to success. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I want to try using a pfSense style router and play around with server stuff in general but I'm trying to avoid having an excessive amount of hardware to save cost, energy, space in my residence, and just not be wasteful. Any computer I build to use as a router will be overpowered and have room to do other tasks. However I am afraid that there would be a security vulnerability since there is a gap between the physical Ethernet port and the router since it would have to go through a hypervisor and possible host OS.

Is my concern valid or unfounded and which hypervisor do you suggest I use? Should it be a type 1 (bare metal) hypervisor? I would like to run either pfSense or OPNsense as a router and the other virtual servers on this machine would be Linux.

My hardware plan is to get an Intel i3 or Ryzen 3 and motherboard with integrated graphics and a PCIe network interface card with 2 Gigabit ports. I would dedicate the network interface card for the router, one port to the modem, the other to my LAN. The motherboard's Ethernet port will be connected to the LAN and can be shared with the other virtual machines on this computer.

Yo Dawg, I heard you like IntCode so I put IntCode in your IntCode VM so you can run IntCode while you run IntCode!

It's moderately hard to think of something more unnecessary since you need another IntCode VM to run the IntCode-IntCode VM, but it had to be done!

Here it is: intcode_vm.txt. To run a program, enter manually or feed as standard input. Program must follow standard format (comma-delimited) and be on one line.

As base IntCode VM I use my C++ IntCode VM. I run programs with input by piping concatenated files to its standard input:

$ cat program.txt input.txt | ./intcode_vm         (Bash)
> type program.txt input.txt 2>nul | intcode_vm    (Windows)

Time for some experiments!

1) Base-line: An optimized IntCode-program running on my C++ IntCode VM:

(This program takes input and prints output in "decimal", non-ASCII mode. A "D" appended at the end of the program instructs my VM's to do "decimal" input/output. Other programs, the IntCode-IntCode VM included, operates in the default ASCII-mode.)

> type day01.txt input01.txt 2>nul | intcode_vm

31989 instructions executed in ~1 ms.

2) Same program but running on the IntCode-IntCode VM:

> type intcode_vm.txt day01.txt input01.txt 2>nul | intcode_vm

266756368 instructions executed in ~5 s, and it's the correct answer :).

3) Same program but running inside another layer of the IntCode-IntCode VM:

> type intcode_vm.txt intcode_vm.txt day01.txt input01.txt 2>nul | intcode_vm

2273420655766 instructions executed in ~12 h, and it's still the correct answer!

TL;DR: I have solved Day 1's puzzle with an IntCode-program and a stack of 3 IntCode VM's - two of them themselves implemented with IntCode.

Last week I inadvertently downloaded a virus to my Windows 10 laptop, which snuck under the radar of my antiviruses and started causing problems. I was able to reset it and restore the data from backups, but it took several days and was a general pain in the butt.

I’ve since done research and have read that virtual machines are one of the best was to quarantine download files while they are being tested, so I would like to set up a virtual machine that can do that. If the files are clean, I’d them transfer them to the real machine (?), but if they are infected, I’d either treat or delete them with no risk to my actual computer.

Can someone teach me how to do this? I know nothing about virtual machines but the fact that they exist.

I'm researching Synology NAS systems for my first NAS system and I'm curious how many VM's could the DS720+ run? I've check the website and I don't know if I'm reading the chart properly.

Is say recommended only 2 at a time or like 2 for every 1 vCPU and 1GB RAM? Just looking for a little clarification before I pull the trigger. Thanks in advance.

I'm new at hack the box and I just wanted to ask if I really need a virtual machine. I can do exactly the same directly from my computer terminal without using a virtual machine and it's easier and more confortable from my point of view. Thanks!

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I wanted to learn more about networking (mostly firewalls and subnetworking at the moment) but don't have a bunch of computers sitting around to physically create a network to test things out and play around. I wondered whether there is software that would allow me to create multiple lightweight virtual machines and simulate the physical connections between them with the hostmachine acting as a sort of router to provide internet. I have used virtualbox and VMware before, but those come with extensive GUI configuration. I'd much prefer something terminal-based to more easily recreate and reconfigure my environment.

Is this even a good idea or technically too complicated/resource intensive? If not, what software would you recommend me to take a look at?

Hello, I am trying to run windows 10 on my chromebook using KVM because I need to use a specific app that only works on windows (I've already tried wine and crossover). I've made it work before, but I disabled my linux environment because I wanted to delete everything. Now, when I am on the final step of booting up my virtual machine, I get this message: "Unable to complete install: 'Unable to set XATTR trusted.libvirt.security.dac on /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-1-win10/master-key.aes: Operation not permitted'"

Any suggestions on how to fix this? I have an Acer Chromebook Spin 713 with intel core i5 10th gen, and I used this tutorial on youtube: https://youtu.be/O-8fzAn8EnI.

https://preview.redd.it/qcw3jrtjgp781.png?width=2256&format=png&auto=webp&s=668481a3d9b35ebf4fa29cabaeef33b89a175174

First off I’m not a software engineer and this is a lot for me to wrap my head around. From what I have gathered Avalanche will make it so that anyone can create a subnet and they could deploy their own virtual machine and have their own programming language for smart contracts, etc. The subnets are then going to be fully interoperable with other subnets and the main avax chains.

I don’t understand how this can possibly be done in a permissionless fashion. What’s to stop a malicious actor from creating their own subnet that just prints millions of avax coins.

Any ideas how this concept could work or is there something I’m completely missing?

I ma running Hyper-V on Windows Server 2016. I have one particular VM that is rarely running as I only need it for intermittent tasks. My current steps to start that VM are: From my laptop, RDP into Windows Server 2016, open Hyper-V Manager, start VM, disconnect RDP from server, RDP into VM.

Is there a PowerShell script that I can run from laptop (same LAN as server) that would start the VM without RDP into the server? I have done lots of Googling and haven't had much luck.

Have you ever used Windows through a virtual machine? How did you find it? I have always assumed that using Windows through Linux is definitely more secure, but this is just my guess. What are substantial privacy advantage if any?

I've had this idea to dual boot my desktop in a hypervizor for a long time for easy backups, easier disk management and the ability to run both os's concurrently but I don't have alot of experience with virtualization and none with hypervizors. Is there a reason I shouldn't do this or might not want to and why isn't this more common when dual booting?

Hey all, im curious about this hypothetical situation. If a software you are only allowed on one machine (it sends computer information to the software company). If I install on a virtual machine, and copy this virtual machine to another computer, does this avoid any detection?

Thanks

I made a windows XP vm (vm specs- 2 cores, 2 gigs of ram, 40 gig hard drive, video memory maxed out) on my win 10 pc (host specs- core i5 10300h 4 cores 8 threads, 16 gigs of ram, gtx 1660ti, 1tb+256gb ssds) to play some older games, original half life, original gta trilogy, the likes. none of them boot. Half life booted but the controls were wonky, anyone have a fix?

latest version of virtualbox as of 10 jan 2022. vt-x enabled, guest additions installed

As title mentioned, I read that there’s little to no virus can penetrate Linux. Don’t know where to find a wild one, so I would need some help. Also it’s for my university assignment (documentation purpose)

Edit: thanks for the help. Linux seems powerful, might become Unix master race someday.

Ok, let's start with some premises: I'm an amateur programmer, and it's simply an hobby for me, not something I'd like to build a career with, so I'm kind of inexperienced on a lot of things.

I want to create a script/program that when I receive an email from my Kindle with the things I highlighted from a book automatically adds a new page to my Notion database with the highlights. This program would obviously have to be running ideally at all times, so that I don't have to automatically open my pc and run it.

The code it's not the problem, it's the fact that I'd have to have it always running on my pc, and it'd be a drain on both battery and resources. Are there any free virtual machines that are always online I can use?

I'm in a webgame preservation project, and was an active contributor until last month when I made the swap to Linux. Unfortunately for me, there doesn't seem to be a workaround to get the software I use for said project working straight on Linux.

There are people currently working on a Linux version of the software, but until it's further down the line in development, I'm SOL unless I run the software on a Windows VM. I have gotten said software to work just fine on the VM, but there's one thing:

Browser games run like absolute ass.

I've tried both VirtualBox and VMWare, Windows 7 and 10, upping the RAM allocated (8GB should be enough, right?), giving it more CPU cores, but no matter what these damn games just run slow. Not only are the games frustrating me by being slow af, sometimes audio just refuses to work.

I asked in a Discord community centred around Virtual Machines how I can get these browser games to run more smoothly, and all I got was some moron who told me not to game on a VM and act like I was trying to run Skryim and not, idk, Princess Elsa Foot Massage.

I don't think getting a browser game running should take too many resources in the VM, but after trying everything I can think of, I'm just straight lost. What would be the steps to take to improve their performance? The project means a lot to me and the spare time I usually allocated to working on it has now been eating away at me.

I made a tutorial on how to setup a server using WSL a few days ago. Since then Ive learned about a lot of problems that WSL has.

So I made a new tutorial that shows you how to setup a server on Windows using a virtual machine which fixes a lot of the problems people were having with WSL. Hope you guys find this helpful

Alternatively, if you don't want to setup your own server, you can DM me to join my private server (as long as you are my friend).

https://youtu.be/2vAjcw1KJF8

Hey friends, how are you doing.

Currently i am running an EPYC server with almost 35 virtual machines, but i'd like to store them on a 40gbps connected TrueNAS server and run them from a RAID 10 SSD pool.

In order to do so i have to attach a network share OR iSCSI target in my hypervisor, so i am free to choose whether i use an iSCSI share, or a simple NFS share.

What are your suggestion, and what are the benefits compared between both systems? Both work completely differently, so i am curious what's the superior solution for this use case and why.

Thanks in advance!

Is their any possibility?

Last week I inadvertently downloaded a virus to my Windows 10 laptop, which snuck under the radar of my antiviruses and started causing problems. I was able to reset it and restore the data from backups, but it took several days and was a general pain in the butt.

I’ve since done research and have read that virtual machines are one of the best was to quarantine download files while they are being tested, so I would like to set up a virtual machine that can do that. If the files are clean, I’d them transfer them to the real machine (?), but if they are infected, I’d either treat or delete them with no risk to my actual computer.

Can someone teach me how to do this? I know nothing about virtual machines but the fact that they exist.

Last week I inadvertently downloaded a virus to my Windows 10 laptop, which snuck under the radar of my antiviruses and started causing problems. I was able to reset it and restore the data from backups, but it took several days and was a general pain in the butt.

I’ve since done research and have read that virtual machines are one of the best was to quarantine download files while they are being tested, so I would like to set up a virtual machine that can do that. If the files are clean, I’d them transfer them to the real machine (?), but if they are infected, I’d either treat or delete them with no risk to my actual computer.

Can someone teach me how to do this? I know nothing about virtual machines but the fact that they exist.

I want to try using a pfSense style router and play around with server stuff in general but I'm trying to avoid having an excessive amount of hardware to save cost, energy, space in my residence, and just not be wasteful. Any computer I build to use as a router will be overpowered and have room to do other tasks. However I am afraid that there would be a security vulnerability since there is a gap between the physical Ethernet port and the router since it would have to go through a hypervisor and possible host OS.

Is my concern valid or unfounded and which hypervisor do you suggest I use? Should it be a type 1 (bare metal) hypervisor? I would like to run either pfSense or OPNsense as a router and the other virtual servers on this machine would be Linux.

My hardware plan is to get an Intel i3 or Ryzen 3 and motherboard with integrated graphics and a PCIe network interface card with 2 Gigabit ports. I would dedicate the network interface card for the router, one port to the modem, the other to my LAN. The motherboard's Ethernet port will be connected to the LAN and can be shared with the other virtual machines on this computer.

Hello you beautiful apes.

I wanted to make sure that everyone is aware that in case something were to happen, the DD (and much more than that) is preserved.

I wanted to briefly summarise a) the main posts where the updates are going to be kept.

https://www.reddit.com/r/GMEJungle/comments/rit4ot/ape_historian_what_do_you_need_beside_diamond/

THe main update and links of where to get everything is above.

I wanted to summarise the 5th way of getting the dd that seems to be working fine now. and may be a simple alternative to the ones below, with its own set of caveats.

Currently the 3 ways getting DD:

1- on reddit, via the dd flair or just scrolling

2-if that fails there is a zedinstead library. you all know where it is or can find it.

3-if that fails I have setup an IPFS mirror, but it appears that you need to then install IPFS desktop and set everything up, and as in the last 24 hours i have not had a single request for the files, i assume this isnt actually as popular

4-There is also a magnet link there but I will not be keeping that alive as the method below is much simpler.

TLDR: Ive setup a decentralised way of sharing DD and the history of the GME. please read caveats before clicking buttons.

THe 5th way is via resilio sync - aka using torrent technology but with features of dropbox.

CAVEATS 1: please listen to the videos below first, to understand how it works. please also understand that unless you use a VPN, your ip will be visible to everyone who imports the key below. Please also note that your computer name will also be visible, just like in the photo below - if its your name or you want to change it then its up to you and its your responsibility to do it before you go ahead and do something like this.

Caveat 2:you will need the resilio sync client - if you want, you can install this client in a virtual machine (aka with virtual box), and then set a shared folder between the virtual machine and your host machine so you can copy the DD.

Caveat 3: the key that i am sharing with you is read only. so please dont add any files into the synced folder. it wont work. but if it were not read only - by adding files to the same folder you would then sync that folder across the entire swarm of accounts - which clearly isnt what is needed. hence the caveats 1 and 2 to avoid any possibility of someone coping in mor