I have been using Proxmox on couple of older but decent enough laptops. But as I started to expand my “homelab”, I ran into issue where my local storage is getting low because space is main issue in these old laptops. Since I got QNAP NAS, I decided to add share just for Proxmox nodes.
Category: Virtualization
Copy ISOs for Proxmox
After my recent discovery of this great virtualization tool, everyday I am getting amazed by all features this software has and I am learning something new everyday. Just like any other hypervisor, in order to create VM (or container) it needs source in form of ISO file. The way Proxmox works is, it stores these
Proxmox–Poor man’s virtualization server ??
I have more than few laptops laying around that are too old to run anything but Linux… But I don’t want to part from them. Because I think they are still poweful enough to do things but also because there is no real good way to recycle them. And I always wished to find better
Use of SYSPREP to duplicate windows image with new SIDs
From past some time I am trying to create windows domain in home computer with bunch of VMs using Windows Server 2008 R2 for “educational” purposes … my ultimate goal was to setup clustered windows system and have SQL Server in that environment. I want to lean about how SQL Server behaves in clustered systems
Powering on a virtual machine after connecting a USB device fails with the error
I’ve used VMWare now and then for my virtual machines. And I think, it is the best virtualization software out there in market (but not anymore, I like Virtual BOX more than VMWare). When I was trying out VMWare Workstation on my new machine, I found that I was not able to use USB sticks
Side effects of User Account Control (UAC) of Windows 7
When I used it for first time I thought that UAC was really annoying feature of Windows Vista. I mean for each and every app it was required me to confirm, if I wanted to perform some task which required access to core system. It was more like low level mimic of Linux. But after