Backing up VMware ESXi VMs with ghettoVCB
Backups are important – and VMs should be no exception to that. VMware does have their own official backup solution (vSphere Data Protection), however if you’re running on the free version of ESXi or...
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Using VMware’s Guestinfo Interface to Configure cloud-config on a CoreOS VM
Whilst looking to spin up a new CoreOS VM to run Docker containers in, I noticed that they had added support for configuring cloud-config via VMware’s Guestinfo interface. In short, instead of putting your cloud-config...
Enabling OpenWRT’s NTP Server
Normally, I configure my systems to synchronize their clocks over NTP to one of the NTP Pool servers. However, due to the load-balanced nature of the NTP Pool, clients must use fully qualified domain names in order to...
cu: unknown host
I’ll be honestly amazed if anyone reads this post – the number of people wanting to access a serial port from a FreeBSD system must be incredibly small. However, there’s only a few references...
Intel NUC Internal CEC Adapter by Pulse Eight Review
Pulse Eight recently released a new internal CEC adapter designed especially for use in Intel NUCs. I’ve used their external one for some time so that I can use my TV’s remote to control Kodi on...
