Tag: VM

  • Saved by the qemu_guest_agent

    Literally an hour after I wrote the post about installing the qemu guest agent in a VM and explaining how it can be used to inject root level commands into a VM, I had use of it due to a mistake. I’d decided to add myself to the sudoers file. Since the last line in…

  • Proxmox – Qemu-guest-agent

    One of the strengths of having virtual machines (VMs) running inside a hypervisor like Proxmox is how they are isolated from each other and their host. This is a strength – if there is a problem with a particular VM nothing else should be affected by it. But this can also be a pain if…

  • Proxmox – Installing a Virtual Machine

    Installing your first virtual machine (VM) in the Proxmox hypervisor is pretty straightforward. This post runs through those steps using Proxmox 7.3. You need an operating system for your virtual machine, I’m going to use Ubuntu server in this example, but it could just as easily be Windows server, or regular windows, or one of…

  • Proxmox Hypervisor

    I mentioned a while ago that the price of the Raspberry Pi4 was getting such that it’s smarter to purchase one of the little business workstations instead. Depsite having little need for such a thing, I went ahead and bought an HP Elitedesk 800 G1 “mini” PC. It has 8GB RAM (which is the max…