I have a KVM/Qemu 2.1.2 hypervisor installed on a Linux x86_64 system (kernel 3.18.8). On KVM I installed a Windows 2003 Server guest where usually I do my MS-SQL work. I noticed that while typing inside the Windows guest the…
Few weeks ago I received my long awaited Raspberry Pi board. For those that (yet) don't know what a Raspberry-Pi is, "The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It's a capable…
I have few KVM virtual machines that, for some reasons, I use to backup from time to time. Some of their virtual disks (let's call them VM-hdd) are stored just as a plain raw-uncompressed file (see qcow2) while others are…
By default the libvirt daemon will create some iptables rules for its NAT virtual network (if any). Those rules may not be exactly what you want, so the question is "how to disable libvirt nwfilter rules?". One possible solution (by…
So you have a KVM host that have one ore more KVM guests (such as Windows, Linux, Android, you name it) and one KVM guest is a Windows system that have a SQL Server (doesn't matter which edition). You want…
I have a Win2K3 VM hosted by a KVM hypervisor. In the Linux host I have 2 Linux partitions type ID=83 (eg: /dev/sda5 and /dev/sdb5) that I've allocated to the Win2K3 VM as virtual disks. The Windows guest took care…
It's happening that I have a Win2K3 kvm VM hosted on a Linux host. On Linux I have installed two disks and on each of these disks I've created many partitions. Two of these partitions serve like "physical disks" to…
I have a HP Compaq 6820s laptop and I want to upgrade its BIOS. In Linux we have flashrom which can (among others) flash firmware images as BIOS. The only problem is that my model is unsupported by that software.…
I have a KVM Windows Vista guest whose virtual disk is a volume on a physical disk I have on my server (eg: /dev/VG/lvm_guest-name). The volume is about 80GB, but the space that is really used is about 30GB. My…
