In this article, we will look at how to pass through a physical hard disk (HDD/SSD) or USB storage to a virtual machine running on Proxmox VE. Continue reading “Passthrough Physical Disk or USB to VM on Proxmox VE”
Category: Linux
The make tool in Linux is used to build and compile programs from source files. The utility takes instructions for compilation from the makefile. In some Linux distributions, the make command is not installed by default (for example, in Linux CentOS 8), so when you run the build command, you will see an error:
The inability to pass through a connected USB device from a Hyper-V host to a virtual machine is one of the major shortcomings of the Microsoft hypervisor. You can use the open-source project usbipd-win to solve this problem (https://github.com/dorssel/usbipd-win). The usbipd-win utility allows you to pass through (redirect USB device or key including HASP) over the network from a Windows host to any Hyper-V virtual machine, remote computer running Linux, Windows, or WSL2.
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Proxy servers (such as the Squid proxy) are often used in corporate networks to provide access to the Internet for internal devices. In order for your internal Ubuntu/Debian hosts to be able to install and update deb packages from external repositories, you need to configure the proxy settings for the APT (Advanced Packaging Tool) package manager. This article describes how to configure proxy connection settings for APT.
On Linux, the chcpu console tool allows you to temporarily enable or disable processor cores without rebooting.
In this article, we’ll show you how to set the timezone from the Ubuntu command line.
If you are deploying a Linux virtual machine on a Hyper-V host, you must install Linux Integration Services (LIS) in the guest operating system. Hyper-V Linux Integration Services allow the guest OS to interact with the host: send its state to the hypervisor, perform backups via VSS, correctly reboot and shutdown the Linux guest. In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at how to install Hyper-V Linux Integration Services on popular Linux distros – CentOS, Debian, and Ubuntu.
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This cheat sheet is a collection of useful Postfix commands that I use frequently. The following five console commands are mainly used to manage postfix:
You may get a device is busy error when you try to unmount a partition in Linux using the umount command:
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Let’s say you want to be notified every time someone connects to your Linux hosts via SSH. This article shows how to configure the Zabbix trigger to notify you when a user logs in to a Linux host using SSH.
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