Vagrant Quickstart on Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 with Libvirt
July 6, 2016
There’s a few issues with running Vagrant with Libvirt on Ubuntu 16.04 . Namely, the bundled version of Vagrant is broken. Whoops!
Shrinking a Linux VM in VMware Workstation
July 6, 2016
I do a fair bit of messing around with Linux in VMware Workstation on Windows. This tends to make the underlying VMDK increase rapidly in size, and the ‘Compact’ feature doesn’t work in the current version of Workstation.
SSH Configuration on OpenWRT
June 20, 2016
If you’ve configured Dropbear (the SSH server) for OpenWRT so that it has a secondary listener for your WAN port (you may want to do this if you want the WAN SSH listener on a different port from the default), then you’ve probably noticed that it doesn’t come up on its own after your WAN link drops.
Customizing Unit Files in Systemd
June 14, 2016
On a KVM virtual machine I have, I want to have the MySQL (well, MariaDB) database running on NFS, which means that I need MariaDB to only start up after NFS becomes available. This would normally require editing the default systemd unit file for MariaDB. This is a bad idea, since your changes will be reverted every package upgrade. Here’s how to fix that.
Static MAC Generator for KVM
June 7, 2016
The following line will generate (pseudo-randomly) a static MAC address, suitable for use with a KVM virtual machine;
If you’re using MythTV 0.28 on Ubuntu 16.04 …
June 2, 2016
… you’ll want to know about this bug. Put the following string in the end of your /etc/mysql/conf.d/mythtv.cnf ;