I’ll leave a lot of the theory out and just focus on trying to get you up and running as quick as possible providing example commands. I found the biggest hurdle when learning Docker was understanding exactly what it was and why I should care. I wrote a little post sharing my thoughts on Docker on...
AUFS and SnapRAID is a completely free drive pooling and drive fault tolerance setup. Its hugely powerful but not simple to setup for a newbie. This post will explain how to set them up and build a high performance NAS server for your home using all free and open source software. What is AUFS? What’...
This post is aimed at making setting up KVM with virt-manager a breeze. If you havn’t already, set up X11 forwarding to a remote host or install some kind of a GUI on your Arch install then load up virt-manager via Pacman.
It is assumed that you have created a user, added them to at least the wh...
There comes a point where it is useful to run Linux GUI apps elsewhere every once in a while and in my case virt-manager. Thus I set about figuring out how to use X11 forwarding from Arch Linux to Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks. This is how it’s done.
As usual, most of this inf...
This post is aimed at simplifying the process of installing Arch on Logical Volume Manager (LVM). The info in this post came mostly from this excellent Wiki article, with a couple of additions later on of my own.
Why LVM? You can create a snapshot (see my blog post for these) then install some...
There are many reasons to like unRAID, one of them is it’s ability to easily add drives of mismatched size as and when they become available to you. I had followed this principle over the years and ended up with a hodge-podge of drives. As was my want I’ve decided to remove all 6 (yes 6) drives at o...
I’m assuming you’ve got a working install, if you havn’t get one and make sure to install and setup yaourt as we’re going to need it.
I’m going to make all the apps run as root, some people don’t like this but as my machine is a VM there’s only so much damage it can do!
Grab...
As I write today’s post I am feeling very pleased with the setup as it stands. The aim of this post is to detail the steps required to setup Windows 8 as a VM for Xen 4.3 on Arch Linux, with working GPU on reboot.
To recap quickly my summer project, which I embarked upon some 4 weeks ago, has be...
sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg