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Nitrousoxide posted:Oops, I did an apt purge command to my bare metal server and didn't look at what it was gonna get rid of really carefully. Now it's for sure gonna stop working after the next boot because it got rid of systemd and a bunch of other critical components. DNS isn't even working on it anymore so I can't even try to reinstall it mid flight. Luckily my docker containers still have the dns settings from when they were spun up my home lab services haven't died yet, though as soon as the system reboots it's donezo. You can do something like this https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/236711 Or try just reinstalling your root server package, desktop would be something like "apt-get install ubuntu-desktop", I forget what server is, I think tasksel is still bundled you can use it to list it or reinstall, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Tasksel
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Mr. Crow posted:You can do something like this https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/236711 It was alright, I had backups of all my services hosted on that server, so I just deployed a vm of the OS again and redeployed them via docker again. Aside from the actual transfer of the backup data which took... uh like 12 hours for 150gb, it only took like an hour or two of hands-on time to get it running again, probably less than I would have spent trying to fix the original install.
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Is there a such thing as a packaged group of VMs? Like if I wanted to archive or distribute a production environment that included workstation VMs but also server VMs and maybe different flavors of each. Can they be bundled and also initiated as a group?
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Shaocaholica posted:Is there a such thing as a packaged group of VMs? Like if I wanted to archive or distribute a production environment that included workstation VMs but also server VMs and maybe different flavors of each. Can they be bundled and also initiated as a group? VMware vSphere has a construct called vApp which might fit your needs. https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc/GUID-E6E9D2A9-D358-4996-9BC7-F8D9D9645290.html
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Shaocaholica posted:Is there a such thing as a packaged group of VMs? Like if I wanted to archive or distribute a production environment that included workstation VMs but also server VMs and maybe different flavors of each. Can they be bundled and also initiated as a group? On vmware you can pack multiple vms as a vapp.
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Ok, I'm trying to get a windows virtual machine working in kvm/libvirt/qemu/et al with full gpu passthrough of the dedicated quadro on my thinkpad p53 (on ubuntu). I've got everything needed in initramfs and grub.cfg to enable and pass the card/other things in the iommu group (intel_iommu=on in grub, and blacklisting/passing the devices to vfio in a modprobe conf, regening the initramfs and grub. As far as i can tell from checking lspci they got passed successfully. The thing is, I can usually only run the vm once, sometimes twice per boot before the vm just fails to start (nothing happens immediately after clicking on the play button in virt manager and usually the entire laptop freezes and I have to hard reset. Very occasionally I got an error message after about a minute, but I don't remember what it says. Is there any easy way I can check to see what if anything I am missing with the vfio setup? I forgot I was able to capture dmesg as this was happening, possibly and this is at the very end of the log: quote:[Nov24 11:06] No Local Variables are initialized for Method [NVPO] One other thing is that since the card is, of course, a mobile version the nvidia drivers apparently look for a battery. Someone found a solution by passing this SSDT acpi table to the vm, but I'm having problems getting it to work. I keep getting a permission denied error no matter if i run virt-manager as root or give the file itself full permissions/owned by my user name:kvm, libvirtd-qemu:kvm, root:root. Someone who had the problem too got it to work by adding an exception to a apparmor config file, but I've tried a couple different files that I've seen mentioned and nothing's fixed it.
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Depending on the GPU model, it may have trouble being released after the corresponding VM is shut down. I had this problem on some older quadros - the passthrough would work once, but after shutting down the VM the host system would have to be rebooted to allow the VM to be booted again. Unfortunately I didn't find a fix for it, it seemed to be a fundamental problem with the GPU hardware. What GPU model are you passing through?
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:Ok, I'm trying to get a windows virtual machine working in kvm/libvirt/qemu/et al with full gpu passthrough of the dedicated quadro on my thinkpad p53 (on ubuntu). I've got everything needed in initramfs and grub.cfg to enable and pass the card/other things in the iommu group (intel_iommu=on in grub, and blacklisting/passing the devices to vfio in a modprobe conf, regening the initramfs and grub. As far as i can tell from checking lspci they got passed successfully. The thing is, I can usually only run the vm once, sometimes twice per boot before the vm just fails to start (nothing happens immediately after clicking on the play button in virt manager and usually the entire laptop freezes and I have to hard reset. Very occasionally I got an error message after about a minute, but I don't remember what it says. Is there any easy way I can check to see what if anything I am missing with the vfio setup? I used to get hard freezes on my host when shutting down a Windows VM under KVM et al when passing a consumer NVIDIA GPU via VFIO. I fixed those freezes by setting the card to MSI mode in the guest. This was many, many years ago though. Could still be worth checking out on your setup. This is the best explanation of MSI mode that I know of: https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/windows-line-based-vs-message-signaled-based-interrupts-msi-tool.378044/ and it has a link to a tool that will switch your GPU to MSI mode if it can. Though this discussion is 10 years old at this point and one would hope that MSI mode is enabled by default on recent NVIDIA drivers. No guarantee this is related to your issue though, especially since you don't seem to run into the issue at VM shutdown time.
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In case you guys missed the memo, Broadcom woke up and chose violence. https://news.vmware.com/company/vmware-by-broadcom-business-transformation You won’t be able to renew SnS on perpetual contract beyond the current duration and won’t be able to purchase new perpetual licenses. Conversion to subscription might also be the time VMware moves to cores instead of sockets but who knows.
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SlowBloke posted:In case you guys missed the memo, Broadcom woke up and chose violence. Yeah they’re doing exactly what they said they’d do.
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I have been stuck with supporting old versions of VMware on a couple of occasions where the cost of new licencing was in the 6 figure range. I'm guessing a subscription model will make it easier to upgrade.
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I guess I don't mind VMware licensing turning into a subscription that includes support because I never had the desire to run old versions or without support. The real problem is that they are trying to squeeze out 3x the profit. Financialization is bad, folks. Who knew?
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I just wish they'd skip the BS and say "the old perpetual license structure failed to deliver the revenue required to please shareholders." Edit: Q: Why is this good for VMware customers? A: It's not. We simply judge that you have no choice.
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It was considerably cheaper for us to do subscription based and assuming you actually pay for updates it would be over the lifetime, probably. It also came with feature we previously weren't paying for which is nice. So, right now, I would say yes it is better and a good thing. That said I fully expect them to start making it a huge piece of poo poo and fractured subscription models after they get everyone over and locked in in a couple years.
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Broadcom has hosed everything it touches, so I suspect this will be no different.
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Zorak of Michigan posted:I just wish they'd skip the BS and say "the old perpetual license structure failed to deliver the revenue required to please shareholders." Because all we do is lie in this industry all of the time.
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in a well actually posted:Yeah they’re doing exactly what they said they’d do. Internet Explorer posted:I guess I don't mind VMware licensing turning into a subscription that includes support because I never had the desire to run old versions or without support. The real problem is that they are trying to squeeze out 3x the profit. Financialization is bad, folks. Who knew?
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:It's not just what they said they'd do, it's what everyone else said they'd do before they said they'd do it. IIRC when they made the offer public they were very explicit about their plans for cutting costs (staff) and increasing revenues (prices). Oracle at least still puts effort into development on their various products like ExaData or their cloud platform; Broadcom is in classic enterprise resource extraction mode.
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CommieGIR posted:Broadcom has hosed everything it touches, so I suspect this will be no different. They seem to get switch chips right, the rest? not so much...
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Wibla posted:They seem to get switch chips right, the rest? not so much... Their chips are fine. Their acquisitions are not.
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I have worked at VMware for over 16 years. Broadcom quickly came out with with a return to office mandate and a new employment contract that is horrific. We had one of our most senior team members quit with 0 days notice, and a lot of people that are refusing to sign the new contract and are looking for a new job. So expect the virtualization quality to take a hit. Enjoy!
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Mr. Crow posted:Well theres always proxmox i guess XCP-NG is more Enterprise rated and has enterprise support.
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DevNull posted:I have worked at VMware for over 16 years. Broadcom quickly came out with with a return to office mandate and a new employment contract that is horrific. We had one of our most senior team members quit with 0 days notice, and a lot of people that are refusing to sign the new contract and are looking for a new job. So expect the virtualization quality to take a hit. Enjoy! Please god let me not find out that support actually could be worse.
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Mr. Crow posted:Well theres always proxmox i guess We are unironically looking into this and XCP-NG as alternatives...
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Zorak of Michigan posted:Please god let me not find out that support actually could be worse. The key is to just never contact support. Google your issues forever. 
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Zorak of Michigan posted:Q: Why is this good for VMware customers? We are now committed to a shift to
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Zorak of Michigan posted:Please god let me not find out that support actually could be worse. let me tell you about that time VMware support brought down our entire network
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DevNull posted:I have worked at VMware for over 16 years. Broadcom quickly came out with with a return to office mandate and a new employment contract that is horrific. We had one of our most senior team members quit with 0 days notice, and a lot of people that are refusing to sign the new contract and are looking for a new job. So expect the virtualization quality to take a hit. Enjoy! thanks for your work, especially on the flings that have made my life substantially easier
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Didn't the HTML5 console start off as a fling? Can't have that sort of initiative being freely taken any more I suppose.
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I have briefed multiple new customers planning to buy new mainframes specifically because it will be cheaper for them to port their linux junk to s390x and move to kvm than to stay in vmware with the expected pricing change I wonder if that increases or decreases now that the change happened
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fresh_cheese posted:I have briefed multiple new customers planning to buy new mainframes specifically because it will be cheaper for them to port their linux junk to s390x and move to kvm than to stay in vmware with the expected pricing change  2024, the year of Linux on the mainframe.
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Potato Salad posted:thanks for your work, especially on the flings that have made my life substantially easier Thanks. I actually worked on the VNC server/client fling that was release over 10 years ago. I think they pulled it from the site eventually since it wasn't getting updates. I left that team but still used that fling myself.
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Relevant to the Broadcom buyout of VMware, they're already moving to transition everything to a subscription-based model and as part of that they're killing the perpetual license model for vSphere: https://www.thestack.technology/broadcom-is-killing-off-vmware-perpetual-licences-sns/. Can't say I'm surprised, Broadcom only bought VMware to capture and exploit their revenue stream. As they've already demonstrated anything that can be considered a cost centre is on the chopping block. It's kind of similar to the corporate raiders in the 80s only instead of immediately liquidating they just bleed em dry.
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Pile Of Garbage posted:Relevant to the Broadcom buyout of VMware, they're already moving to transition everything to a subscription-based model and as part of that they're killing the perpetual license model for vSphere: https://www.thestack.technology/broadcom-is-killing-off-vmware-perpetual-licences-sns/. Yeah, that’s what started this conversation I think.
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DevNull posted:Thanks. I actually worked on the VNC server/client fling that was release over 10 years ago. I think they pulled it from the site eventually since it wasn't getting updates. I left that team but still used that fling myself. I remember you mentioning you worked with that team, well, many many years ago
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Pile Of Garbage posted:Relevant to the Broadcom buyout of VMware, they're already moving to transition everything to a subscription-based model and as part of that they're killing the perpetual license model for vSphere: https://www.thestack.technology/broadcom-is-killing-off-vmware-perpetual-licences-sns/. I'm a little busy this morning, does this mention whether existing perpetual licenses are under the gun I have expressly avoided moving those under our ELA so that we don't have to accept predatory new terms for those licenses
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