@JaredBusch said in Home lab projects - for Middle aged teens: @DustinB3403 said in Home lab projects - for Middle aged teens: @JaredBusch said in Home lab projects - for Middle aged teens: @scottalanmiller said in Home lab projects - for Middle aged teens: @DustinB3403 said in Home lab projects - for Middle aged teens: @scottalanmiller said in Home lab projects - for Middle aged teens: Home PBX I was definitely considering setting up a home PBX but I don't know if I want to subscribe to any actual phone numbers You can learn a lot without doing that. Although voip.ms makes it SO cheap. And you can make calls without buying a phone number at all. Just pay per use. What option is that? I don't recall seeing that (granted this was some time ago) VoIP.ms has never required purchasing a number to have an account and setup a trunk. You simply have no way to receive calls from the PSTN. Ah.

@eddiejennings said in Determining resources for hypervisor: @black3dynamite said in Determining resources for hypervisor: Instead of using Fedora as a firewall VM, how about using VyOS? https://wiki.vyos.net/wiki/User_Guide I was thinking of that as well, since the OS for the ERLs. EdgeOS and VyOS are cousins, both descended from Vyatta.

@dustinb3403 said in KVM in Production - Build it yourself: Building a template VM with your backup agent installed might work (urbackup etc) as they'd register to your server. Buy individual agents is again more than anyone really wants to manage. I think we have two KVM backup discussions going on, so I'll post a link to my other reply here: https://mangolassi.it/topic/15826/kvm-and-back-ups/23

@tim_g said in KVM - Virt-Manager on a Separate VM: @dustinb3403 said in KVM - Virt-Manager on a Separate VM: @tim_g said in KVM - Virt-Manager on a Separate VM: @dustinb3403 said in KVM - Virt-Manager on a Separate VM: @tim_g said in KVM - Virt-Manager on a Separate VM: @dustinb3403 said in KVM - Virt-Manager on a Separate VM: @jaredbusch said in KVM - Virt-Manager on a Separate VM: @DustinB3403 I use my user in the libvirt group so I do not have to bother with the root user. gpasswd -a jbusch libvirt Then this works. Holy fuck it took way to long to get to this point. So here is the stupid approach. ssh-keygen -t rsa generating. . . . . . . . . The key fingerprint is . . . ssh-copy-id -i /home/user/.ssh/d_rsa.pub [email protected] Login with [email protected] password Test the login Disconnect from the remote server and run this next bit on your management system. gpasswd -a username libvirt Done, and it works. @JaredBusch thanks for cutting through the bullshit and helping out here. Wyd you talking about. JARED mentioned that step like 3 posts down from your OP, and it was mentioned several other times as well. Huh? Nothing was as simple as what I just did, Jared was getting to the point at the top of the topic, but there were additional steps I was missing (failed to do entirely). So I dumped all of the rsa keys, and started fresh. The whole thing is taht simple. generate your ssh keys copy the ssh keys add to libvirt group (mentioned in beginning of thread and every other KVM related thread) Done. You can break that up into as many sub steps as you want, but that's what you do. nevermind. . . That's the entire point i tried to make in my 5-steps before it getting ripped apart for me wanting to use 4096 instead of 2048, and not using ssh-copy-id. Because you were a twit about it.

@eddiejennings said in Who needs an MSDN subscription?: @bigbear said in Who needs an MSDN subscription?: @tim_g said in Who needs an MSDN subscription?: @eddiejennings said in Who needs an MSDN subscription?: This thread is inspired by the never-ending thread about licensing and replication in I Can't Even. I know that developers who use Visual Studio probably get their Visual Studio license through an MSDN subscription. One benefit of the subscription is that you're allowed to spin up Windows servers, SQL servers, etc., for development and testing. For organizations who have full-on lab environments or IT staff who need to spin up a VM Windows Server VM here and there to try something out, how do they stay in compliance? Do they also buy a MSDN subscription (perhaps MSDN platforms) for the IT staff member? Do they have their IT staff continually use Windows server 180-day evaluation licenses? Do they turn a blind eye as they give their IT staff activation keys from a dev's MSDN subscription and hope their organization is never audited? MSDN subscriptions are user-specific. To stay in compliance, every person who wants to take advantage of an MSDN benefit, will need to have their own MSDN subscription. They cannot be shared. Any VM spun up under the MSDN subscription cannot be used in any way by another person. Ah, didnt read the full OP post and assumed it was for him. However Bizspark MSDN does provide startup organizations with multiple user accounts all for internal use and testing. It is not for production or internal use. Yeah. It's not for me. I was just musing about the test VMs and such we need to spin up as IT, and I was curious how larger businesses or businesses with test labs license those test Windows VMs. I figured MSDN platforms wasn't used because of [see the above responses], but perhaps truth was going to be stranger than fiction. Larger is different. Once you are of any size you have enterprise agreements and your labs are just covered.

@jt1001001 said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs: wish I had a crawlspace for something like this. I have an attic crawlspaces and it get way to hot in the summer in there for equipment When we first moved in after we bought our house we couldn't have put electronics, or anything really, down there. We're in Michigan and it was super nasty in the crawl, freezing cold in the winter and super wet in the summer, not to mention the 4 billion spiders. We sealed off the vents to the outside and completely encapsulated it. Now it stays around 60 degrees and the relative humidity is right around 50%. My son actually likes to play down there now.

Getting lots of eyes on this thread today. Very interesting.

@Danp said: I don't know of any off hand, but I am involved with a NP that also works with the developmentally disabled. I can check with them to see what they are using if you would like. Have you checked on techsoup.org to see if they offer anything that would fit your needs? Thanks I would appreciate that. I use Techsoup regularly so I've seen what they offer. It's a good resource but I haven't seen anything mind blowing, not that it's required. I'm currently building a Raspberry Pi project that uses a capacitive sensing board to allow clients (verbal and non-verbal) to interact with different objects. When touched the Raspberry Pi will play an audio file that names what it is. This is an example of the types of projects I would be looking for. Even ideas would be great although take it easy, I'm new to Python.

@Minion-Queen said: @thanksajdotcom said: @scottalanmiller said: @Hubtech said: @thanksajdotcom do you want people to hate you? I LOVE THIS IMAGE! You would It's brilliant!

If the dc5750 if causing issues, try putting Windows on the DL145 G2. Likely the proc is too old but worth a try.

@ajstringham said: Rackspace is quite good. I've been working with them for 5+ years through NTG and they have really been awesome.

@hubtech are you prepending the 1? You can do it either in the Trunk or the outbound route.