Virtualization
- Windows 7 P2V (Hyper-V)
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.
- Ubuntu cloud 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…
- 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.
- Win11 Libvirt Tip
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.
- 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.