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Month: October 2016

Pass-through PCIe USB3 card to KVM guest

2019-10-042016-10-28 by valo

To get some usable input devices inside a Windows VM used mainly for gaming i bought a PCIe USB3 card that should be passed through to the guest. During the boot process the xhci_hcd (usb3) driver of the host system attaches to the card which makes the card unusable with qemu/kvm without unbinding it first. … Read more

Tags debian, Hardware, KVM, Qemu, Virtualization 1 Comment

Load SSH keys on Xfce login with keychain / ssh-agent

2019-10-042016-10-17 by valo

On my workstation i want my SSH keys to be loaded and unlocked on login to XFCE. This seemed like a job for some keyring daemon like gnome-keyring but it’s not that easy… GNOME-Keyring automatically adds all existing SSH RSA (and DSA) keys but does not support ECDSA (which i’m not using) and ed25519 keys … Read more

Tags gnome-keyring, gpg-agent, keychain, keys, ssh, ssh-agent, xfce4 2 Comments

Debian mirror script “ftpsync” on OmniOS

2019-10-052016-10-12 by valo

The ftpsync script from the Debian archive mirror page is used to mirror the packages from the ftp.at.debian.org and security.debian.org archives.

The script shows some errors on OmniOS due to differences in options to the hostname command.

Read more

Tags bash, debian, ftpsync, hostname, omnios 1 Comment

OmniOS lipkg zone as debian package mirror

2019-10-052016-10-12 by valo

My private Debian package mirror was a Debian 8 virtual machine with the storage provided by an OmniOS fileserver and exported as a nfs share.
The goal is to move the whole mirror into a zone on the fileserver. The debian ftpsync mirror script is a bash script and should also run on OmniOS.

Read more

Tags debian, ftpsync, lipkg, omnios, zone 1 Comment

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Recent Posts

  • AMD Ryzen VFIO GPU pass-through – gaming VM on new hardware 2020-01-23
  • Convert existing root filesystem to LVM 2019-10-05
  • Pass-through PCIe USB3 card to KVM guest 2016-10-28
  • Load SSH keys on Xfce login with keychain / ssh-agent 2016-10-17
  • Debian mirror script “ftpsync” on OmniOS 2016-10-12

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