Virtualization

Windows 7 Physical to Hyper-V Virtual Machine

This guide provides an important step missing from articles I could find on converting from a Windows 7 physical machine to Hyper-V (or other) virtual machine.

July 21, 2024 by Daniel F Dickinson6 minutes

Ubuntu cloud images on Hyper-V

The official Ubuntu images that are built for Azure/Hyper-V really are only compatible with Hyper-V on Azure, but there is a solution…

June 24, 2020 by Daniel F Dickinson6 minutes

Windows in a Libvirt KVM VM

These are notes on creating a Windows and Linux hybrid environment, specifically when running Windows in a Libvirt/KVM VM.

October 27, 2020 by Daniel F Dickinson10 minutes

Tip for Windows 11 on Libvirt/KVM

Getting good performance with Windows 11 Pro running under Libvirt/KVM on Linux requires some special configs, especially if one wants to enable WSL2 (which requires 'Nested virtualization'). This is a brief cheatsheet on the required configuration.

June 19, 2025 by Daniel F Dickinson2 minutes

Bare metal cloud-init

A guide to using a Debian cloud image and cloud-init on a bare-metal host for fast deployment. The base configuration is very basic and aims to act like an OVH Debian 12 (Bookworm) dedicated server base configuration.

February 18, 2023 by Daniel F Dickinson12 minutes

Fast builds of armel software on Linux x64

The fastest and most practical way to build software for armel is to cross-compile on an x86_64 machine even for a Linux 2.6-series kernel

December 9, 2019 by Daniel F Dickinson6 minutes

ARM Libvirt/KVM virtualization

For old school ARM (32-bit) or shiny new UEFI ARM (32-bit) virtual machines in Libvirt/KVM and automated or manual creation, you can have what you want.

November 9, 2020 by Daniel F Dickinson0 minutes

Four ARMs for Libvirt/KVM Virtualization

For old school ARM (32-bit) or shiny new UEFI ARM (32-bit) virtual machines in Libvirt/KVM and automated or manual creation, you can have what you want.

November 9, 2020 by Daniel F Dickinson4 minutes

Old school manual ARM for Libvirt/KVM

Create a non-EFI (old school) ARM hardfloat virtual machine for Libvirt/KVM using a traditional interactive Debian install.