#is proxmox a hypervisor

[it-system-engineer]

Proxmox VE 8.4 Özellikleri: Açık Kaynaklı Sanallaştırmada Yenilikler ve Performans Artışı

Merhaba, bu yazımda sizlere Proxmox sanallaştırma yazılımı 8.4 sürümünün özelliklerinden bahsedeceğim. Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) 8.4, açık kaynaklı sanallaştırma ve konteyner yönetimi çözümünün en güncel sürümü olarak kullanıcılarla buluştu. Bu yeni sürüm, önceki versiyonların sağlam temellerini korurken, kullanıcıların sanallaştırma ve bulut altyapısı yönetim deneyimini büyük ölçüde…

[virtualizationhowto]

Proxmox Alternatives in 2024: Comparing 10 Hypervisors Pros and Cons

Proxmox Alternatives in 2024: Comparing 10 Hypervisors Pros and Cons #proxmox #proxmoxve #hypervisors #alternatives #kubevirt #vmware #xcpng #kvm #nutanix #openshift #redhat #azure #gcp #homelab #homeserver

There is arguably not a more popular free virtualization platform than Proxmox VE (Proxmox Virtual Environment). Proxmox has taken the home lab community by storm, and now that the VMware buyout by Broadcom has been finalized, many are jumping ship on VMware. I have tested and put a lot of effort into using other virtualization solutions so I can share my results with you in posts like these so…

[veuhoffblog]

Proxmox VE 8 Upgrade: Eine Aktualisierung von v7.4 auf v8.0 durchführen

Vor wenigen Tagen wurde Proxmox VE 8.0 veröffentlicht. Die neue Version basiert jetzt auf Debian 12 (Bookworm) und bringt eine ganze Menge neuer Features und Funktionen mit. In dieser Anleitung möchte ich euch dabei unterstützen, euren bestehenden Proxmox-VE-Server von Version 7.4 auf die aktuellste Versionsnummer 8.0 zu aktualisieren (Upgrade)...[Weiterlesen]

[andmaybegayer]

Last Monday of the Week 2025-04-28

Okay, play the theme song

Listening: That is only a little joke because the song this week is the Perpetua theme from the new F@TT season, Perpetua.

This is part of why I have been wanting to play a JRPG, this season does not sound like it could possibly be a video game but people keep on being like "yes we're going to have the warring sports city with two mayors, like in FireFuckers 27/⅔ Part Seven."

I do like Jack De Quidt doing ominous chanting in the back here, I always appreciate when they do vocal stuff. Looking forward to the rest of this album.

Reading: Started and finished Psalm for the Wild Built, wrote more about that here

Also started Red Mars which is off to a different kind of weird start. This book is dedicated to the brave Saudis of the Noctis Labyrinthus. I am not that far in I don't know how important the Saudis are I started at lunch.

Watching: Watched the first eight? episodes of S4 of The Clone Wars which are an insane mix of awful and pretty good. There's a sharp uptick in space racism here! The clones come down to a planet with funny little guys and groan and are like "oh god not another planet like this." I do appreciate that the clones appear to be getting genre savvy which might not save their ass but at least they are figuring out that sometimes you have to frag your CO.

This is genuinely an insane sequence of episodes because there are some really hot moments! There's a really funny bit where threepio and artoo get Lilliput'd but they immediately solve it by killing the Lilliput tyrant, totally fail to install a democracy, go "we've installed a democracy" and leave behind a squabbling bickering mess of factions. This happens in like 7 minutes by the way. But they also do some truly comical levels of space racism multiple times.

Making: Mocking up some designs for things around the house out of cardboard, which is just such a good building material for large, moderately accurate projects.

Playing: Finished Cyberpunk, read about that here!

Dicking around with some other games. Played some Titanfall 2, picked Sable back up. Sable has some truly jarring control issues but is otherwise delightful, and remarkably doesn't choke even running at 4k on a 6700XT.

Tools and Equipment: Proxmox is not the most flexible or interesting open source hypervisor suite in the world but damn if it isn't one of the more functional ones that can reasonably be deployed in a single afternoon.

[geekforcedotcom]

SysAdmin Sunday

One of my ProxMox hypervisor machines has a failing disk. Of course, it's the disk that stores the root filesystem of my homelab DNS server.

remediated by pulling a backup of running Pi-hole and restoring to the other hypervisor, running from an NVME drive now.

The best thing about running a Pi-hole, besides the whole house ad blocking thing, is the skinnable interface.

[tumnikkeimatome]

BroadcomがVMware vSphere Hypervisor 8(無償版ESXi)を約1年2ヶ月ぶりに再提供：オープンソースの「Proxmox」など代替製品へのユーザー流出に対応か？

無償版ESXi再提供の概要と経緯 2025年4月10日（現地時間）、BroadcomがVMware vSphere Hypervisor 8（無償版ESXi）の提供を再開したことが明らかになりました。 ESXi 8.0 Update 3eのリリースノートにて公式に発表されたこの再提供は、2024年2月12日に無償版の提供が終了して以来、約1年2カ月ぶりの動きとなります。 無償版ESXi提供終了から再開までの流れ VMwareは2024年2月、永久ライセンスからサブスクリプションプランへの移行方針の一環として、「VMware vSphere Hypervisor」（ESXi 7.xおよびESXi 8.x）の無償提供を終了しました。 当時、この突然の提供終了は多くのユーザーに影響を与え、SNSでは無償版のダウンロードリンクが消失したことを報告する投稿が相次いでいました。 The…

[differenttimemachinecrusade]

Embedded Hypervisor Market Size, Share, Scope, Future Trends, Analysis, Forecast, Growth, and Industry Report 2032

The Embedded Hypervisor Market Size was valued at USD 12.02 Billion in 2023. It is expected to grow to USD 23.63 Billion by 2032 and grow at a CAGR of 7.80% over the forecast period of 2024-2032.

The Embedded Hypervisor Market is witnessing rapid growth due to the rising demand for virtualization, security, and real-time operating system integration. Industries such as automotive, aerospace, industrial automation, and healthcare are increasingly adopting embedded hypervisors to optimize performance and security. Advancements in AI, IoT, and 5G technologies are further driving market expansion.

The Embedded Hypervisor Market continues to evolve as companies focus on enhancing system efficiency, reducing hardware dependencies, and improving cybersecurity. With the proliferation of connected devices, embedded hypervisors are playing a crucial role in enabling secure multi-OS environments while maintaining real-time processing capabilities. As the demand for high-performance embedded systems increases, the market is expected to witness sustained growth.

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Market Keyplayers:

VMware, Inc. (VMware vSphere, VMware Workstation)

TenAsys Corporation (INTEGRITY RTOS, iRMX Real-Time Operating System)

IBM Corporation (IBM PowerVM, IBM z/VM)

Siemens EDA (Mentor Embedded Hypervisor, Veloce Emulation Platform)

QNX Software Systems Limited (QNX Neutrino RTOS, QNX Hypervisor)

WindRiver Systems, Inc. (VxWorks, Wind River Linux)

SYSGO AG (PikeOS, ELinOS Linux)

ENEA (Enea OSE, Enea Linux)

Lynx Software Technologies, Inc. (LynxOS, LynxSecure)

Acontis Technologies GmbH (Xenomai, EtherCAT Master)

Citrix Systems, Inc. (Citrix Hypervisor, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops)

Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH (Proxmox Virtual Environment, Proxmox Backup Server)

Microsoft Corporation (Hyper-V, Windows Server)

Green Hills Software (INTEGRITY RTOS, MULTI IDE)

Sierraware (Sierra Hypervisor, Sierra Secure Virtualization)

Acontis Technologies GmbH (Xenomai, EtherCAT Master)

KUKA AG (KUKA.Safe Operation, KUKA.System Software)

Red Hat, Inc. (Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Virtualization)

Fujitsu Limited (Fujitsu Cloud Hypervisor, Fujitsu Virtualization Platform)

Aricent (now part of Altran) (Virtualization Solutions, Embedded Software Solutions)

Market Trends Driving Growth

1. Increasing Demand for Secure Virtualization

With the rise of cyber threats, embedded hypervisors are gaining traction as they provide hardware-level isolation and secure OS partitioning.

2. Adoption in Automotive and Aerospace

The growing use of hypervisors in autonomous vehicles, avionics, and mission-critical applications is fueling market expansion.

3. Integration with AI and IoT

Embedded hypervisors are enabling real-time AI processing and IoT connectivity, enhancing smart system capabilities.

4. Shift Towards Open-Source Solutions

The adoption of open-source hypervisors is increasing due to cost-effectiveness and flexibility in customization.

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Market Segmentation:

By Component

Services

Software

By Enterprise Size

Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs)

Large Enterprises

By Technology

Desktop Virtualization

Server Virtualization

Data Center Virtualization

By Application

IT & Telecommunications

Automotive

Aerospace & Defense

Industrial

Transportation

Market Analysis

Growing Demand in Automotive & Industrial Automation: The rise of autonomous systems and Industry 4.0 is boosting hypervisor adoption.

Increasing Regulatory Compliance: Strict security and safety regulations in industries such as healthcare and aerospace are driving innovation.

Expansion of Edge Computing: Hypervisors are playing a key role in edge computing by enabling secure, multi-OS execution.

Competition Among Key Players: Companies like VMware, Wind River, and SYSGO are investing in R&D to enhance hypervisor capabilities.

Future Prospects

The Embedded Hypervisor Market is set for significant expansion, with increasing investments in AI-driven automation, cybersecurity enhancements, and cloud-integrated virtualization. Emerging applications in medical devices, defense systems, and industrial robotics will further contribute to market growth. As organizations focus on optimizing embedded computing environments, the demand for hypervisors will continue to rise.

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The Embedded Hypervisor Market is on a robust growth trajectory, driven by technological advancements, security needs, and real-time processing requirements. Companies investing in virtualization solutions, open-source innovations, and AI-powered embedded systems will shape the future of this evolving industry. With ongoing research and development, the market is poised to revolutionize secure and efficient embedded computing across various sectors.

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[fatalquiete]

Prima Broadcom toglie la versione ESXi gratuita con una gestione delle licenze che è un capestro, ora "libera" Workstation e Fusion, facendolo sembrare un regalo, ma sparisce il supporto via ticket lasciando alla community l'onere del supporto all'utente. Personalmente direi che questi due prodotti verranno accantonati nel giro di qualche anno. Politica furba: stanno cercando di incentrare tutto sull'enterprise, che butta soldi facili. Viaddio ProxMox e VirtualBox sono ancora li, credo e spero per restare

[leam1983]

Some of the comments are a little disconnected from everyday use, honestly.

I work in IT, I get it, in a fair and just world, we'd all be running Proxmox bare-metal and we'd be piling on VM after VM for the sake of freeing ourselves from the shackles imposed on us by corporate ecosystems. The thing is, you are not going to convince someone who's already tech-averse to go this deep, this quickly. Considering how most of my employees do everything on their phones and barely know how to turn their work rigs on or off - and most of them are in their twenties - there's a ton of ground to cover.

Here's a small - if still longish - taste of it all below. Click for more.

Start small. If anyone's curious and wants at least one solid stepping stone, consider checking whether or not your version of Windows contains the Hyper-V virtualization suite. To do so, open your Start menu, and start typing Turn Windows features on or off into the search bar. Pick the first item that pops up, and you'll access a window listing all of your OS' installed and pending features. You're looking for Hyper-V. Click on its box, then let your machine restart.

Congrats, it, uh... sort of looks like nothing's changed, right? That's good, actually. Now what you want to do is head to the Internet Archive and pick whatever operating system from your childhood that you happen to remember, or you could even go nuts and pick out one of the Enthusiast ISOs for Windows freaking 7 that some diehards are still putting together to this day. Pick a system, download its ISO file, and then search for and start Hyper-V.

Following the steps onscreen, you'll create your first virtual machine. For now, just hit Finish right off the bat, the program's going to pick best-case options that'll at least shield you from massive fuck-ups, seeing as this is your first time. Pick out your virtual machine in the main window, right-click on it and select Settings. Inside, you'll point its virtual CD-ROM drive to where you download your operating system's ISO.

If all goes well, you should see your operating system of choice's first boot screen in the window that pops up, once you boot up your VM. You can full-screen the program, if you want to fake running this natively a little more comfortably. Don't forget to (ahem) source a valid CD key through entirely legal means - you only really need to Google for this. If you're looking for a Microsoft key, you'll find Generic keys listed by the boatload. If you're trying out a MacOS install, you might have a little bit of a harder time finding the right serials, but it isn't impossible.

Of course, the easiest option is a Linux distro. Distros, barring a few exceptions, are typically free to use and have no copy-protection shenanigans to handle. If that's your course of choice, start with Linux Mint - it's designed to be as familiar as possible to people coming in from a Windows system. Once you've got the ball rolling, have fun with your now-sandboxed OS install. Revisit old favourites maybe, or even practice using Hyper-V's Guest tools to make your host PC and the virtual machine effectively "share" a network!

Later on, you'll realize that there's virtual machines dedicated to all sorts of things: you can run home automation servers, play games or run servers for said games - the sky's the limit, really. Running your VMs in instances on a bigger OS like Windows works on the short term, but sharing hardware resources like this is a huge pain. Eventually, you're going to want to run a hypervisor - that's a virtualization suite - directly on top of your hardware. That makes it much easier to divvy out resources as needed.

That, however, is neither here nor there if you're just starting out. If all you ever do is power on and shut off a PC, start by running the same version of Windows you're already familiar with on a separate VM. Then, poke at that sacrificial system to your heart's content. The fun thing about virtual machines is that irrecoverable fuck-ups do not exist. Save a state before doing dodgy shit, like you're playing a game on an emulator, and then go on right ahead.

Does the VM now refuse to boot? Reload its last save state. Bam, you're done. Learn that system from the inside out, and then try out its Server Edition, or jump to a Windows or a Mac, all depending. Try out Linux, too! You have no limits on the number of virtual machines you can run - none save your own hardware's limitations.

This is the best start to a home lab that you could possibly get, short of going fucking nuts for what's still just a hobby and speccing yourself a server-grade system to fuck around with.

If this really appeals to you, I'd advise picking up Windows Terminal commands, formerly known as MS-DOS prompts, and pairing that with some passing understanding of Bash. These two Command Prompt syntaxes are essential to start with. For maximum fun and chaos, set your newfangled server as a target, deploy a Kali Linux install, and start picking up Network Security basics by actually playing the part of a hacker.

If this speaks to you, you'll have enough on-hand to potentially make a career out of it. If you're just curious, you'll still know more about how to keep safe online than 99.9% of your fellow netizens.

Someone needs to inform the (rightly) pro-piracy tumblr users that it is no longer 2014 and some of the services they are recommending will turn ur computer in a broken microwave that serves bitcoins to shitheads.

[techwebdevelopment]

How to use GPU passthrough on a Windows 11 VM in Proxmox?

With its straightforward user interface and powerful features, Proxmox is an amazing hypervisor for newcomers as well as home lab veterans. But the difficulty gets raised a ton once you start looking into the more advanced aspects of the virtualization platform. Source: xda-developers.com The post How to use GPU passthrough on a Windows 11 VM in Proxmox? appeared first on TECH - WEB DEVELOPMENT NEWS. https://tech-webdevelopment.news-6.com/how-to-use-gpu-passthrough-on-a-windows-11-vm-in-proxmox/

[virtualizationhowto]

5 Reasons Proxmox Is the Ultimate Home Lab Hypervisor in 2025 #proxmox #homelab #homeserver

[hackernewsrobot]

Ryzen 7 Mini-PC makes a power-efficient VM host

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2024-07-02-ryzen-7-mini-pc-low-power-proxmox-hypervisor/

[network4you]

Die wichtigsten Hypervisor im Vergleich

Grundsätzlich unterscheidet man zwischen zwei Arten von Hypervisoren:

Bare-Metal-Hypervisor: Dieser Typ installiert sich direkt auf der Hardware des Host-Systems. Er hat vollen Zugriff auf die Systemressourcen und bietet dadurch die höchste Leistung. Bekannte Vertreter sind VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V und Proxmox VE.

Hosted Hypervisor: Im Gegensatz dazu läuft ein Hosted Hypervisor auf einem bestehenden Betriebssystem als Anwendung. Dies bietet zwar weniger Leistung, dafür aber eine einfachere Einrichtung und eignet sich besonders für den Einsatz auf Desktop-PCs und Workstations. Beispiele hierfür sind Oracle VirtualBox und VMware Workstation Player.

Nachdem wir nun die grundlegenden Konzepte geklärt haben, steigen wir tiefer in den Vergleich der populärsten Hypervisor-Lösungen ein.

1. VMware ESXi: Der Platzhirsch im Enterprise-Bereich

VMware ESXi ist der unangefochtene Marktführer im Bereich der Enterprise-Virtualisierung. Er bietet eine breite Palette an Funktionen für die Verwaltung und Skalierung virtueller Maschinen, hohes Sicherheitsniveau und nahtlose Integration in die VMware vSphere-Suite.

Vorteile:

Umfangreiche Funktionen für Hochverfügbarkeit und Disaster Recovery

Ausgereifte Skalierbarkeit für große Umgebungen

Hervorragende Performance

Stabile Plattform mit langer Historie

Nachteile:

Kommerzielle Lizenzierung mit hohen Kosten

Komplexere Einrichtung und Verwaltung

Fokus auf die VMware-Produktpalette

2. Microsoft Hyper-V: Der Herausforderer aus Redmond

Microsofts Hyper-V ist ein starker Konkurrent zu VMware ESXi. Er ist kostenlos in den Server-Editionen von Windows Server enthalten und bietet eine gute Performance sowie einfache Integration mit anderen Microsoft-Produkten.

Vorteile:

Kostenlose Lizenzierung für Windows Server Umgebungen

Einfache Integration mit Active Directory und anderen Microsoft-Diensten

Gute Performance und Skalierbarkeit

Deutlich günstiger als VMware ESXi

Nachteile:

Weniger Funktionsumfang im Vergleich zu VMware ESXi

Fokus auf Windows-Betriebssysteme

Geringere Akzeptanz im reinen Linux-Umfeld

vmware vs hyperv

3. Proxmox VE: Die kostenlose Open-Source-Alternative

Proxmox VE ist ein Open-Source-Hypervisor auf Basis von Debian Linux. Er bietet eine einfach zu bedienende Oberfläche und eignet sich hervorragend für kleine und mittlere Unternehmen sowie Heimanwender.

Vorteile:

Kostenlose Open-Source-Lizenz

Einfache Installation und Verwaltung

Integrierte Unterstützung für Containerisierung (LXC)

Gute Performance für virtualisierte Workloads

Nachteile:

Beschränkter Funktionsumfang im Vergleich zu kommerziellen Lösungen

Geringere Community-Größe im Vergleich zu VMware und Microsoft

Fokus auf Linux-Umgebungen

4. Oracle VirtualBox: Der kostenlose Desktop-Hypervisor

Oracle VirtualBox ist ein kostenloser Hosted Hypervisor, der sich perfekt für den Einsatz auf Desktop-PCs und Workstations eignet. Er ermöglicht es Ihnen, einfach und schnell virtuelle Maschinen mit verschiedenen Betriebssystemen zu erstellen und zu nutzen.

Vorteile:

Kostenlose Lizenzierung

Einfache Installation und Bedienung

Unterstützung für eine Vielzahl von Gastbetriebssystemen

Gute Performance für Desktop-Virtualisierung

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[queer-coded]

Spent the past couple weekends getting some homelab stuff done.

Got 10Gbe SPF+ working between my hypervisor box and NAS

Modded my JONSBO N2 to run almost silently

Set up iSCSI from NAS to Proxmox

Procrastinated on studying for the Security+

Panicked about said procrastination (ongoing)

But hey, at least I can show off my neat homelab thingies.

[slumberersentinels]

Continuing Under Global Upheaval

Hi there. Thank you for your continued support. While I have a lot I can talk about, it's going to be hard to tackle it all at the depths I want with the time I have. So I would like to do what I can to keep everybody updated.

Here we go.

OpenStack and Sunbeam on Ubuntu Linux, planned for Run #4

A SansIsSleeping Run Cannot last forever; 3000 Years At Most before KillScreen imminent. (Edit: 120? Edit 2: Wait, Nevermind)

2+ Years in SansIsSleeping as of September 16, 2023.

2+ Years in SansIsSleeping run #2, as of October 21st, 2023.

Unauthorized Shoutout Event in June 2023?

International Historical Revisionism, Genocide

So. Let's take it as best as I can. Thank you all for your support and interest.

Sunbeam, OpenStack, Ubuntu Linux

Sunbeam is a quick way of installing OpenStack on Ubuntu GNU/Linux. Let's take that from the top. To run a multifeatured hypervisor with a web access panel, networking, data storage systems, users, user groups within domains, and virtual machines all in one system, you use OpenStack. This system can do even more than what I list, and it's all a free and open sourced software. It's big. Big corporations use it. But anybody can use it, too, and that's especially helpful because Canonical--the folk who maintain and keep Ubuntu GNU/Linux up-to-date--developed Sunbeam, which is like "OpenStack Essentials."

I've considered other hypervising systems to manage the variety of operating systems and mini systems needed to build what I think is the future of Slumberer Sentinels and SansIsSleeping. I want the ability for any user to collect a 'drop' of the current live run and see it replicated on their own device. That's quite a ways off, and I'd rather just have a run I can run, load, and save the state of the whole system so I won't lose progress. You need a hypervising system to run this computer, virtually, or else it will be like run #2: When the computer reboots, shuts down the whole operating system, or shuts down the game, the run is over. A hypervising system can run the computer like console emulation: it processes a simulation of a smaller computer with less resources within your current one. With this, I can save the whole operating system--not just the libTAS, tool-assisted UNDERTALE state. Here are some: OpenVMS, a classic mainframe system built to cluster across computers and hypervise them all has been ported to x86 systems; Archipel, a defunct free and open source hypervisor; and Proxmox, which is also free but lacks a few LXC/LXD hypervisor container features (I think, such as migrating them), were all considered. If you weren't free, you aren't on this list.

Sunbeam seemed to be delivered within the last year, which feels serendipitous to me. Canonical, developers of Ubuntu, created "AnBox Cloud," which is amazing and would add a layer of safety to prevent any of our own Android phones from being hacked. This is why I was familiar with some of the systems already in place for OpenStack on Ubuntu. Sunbeam may make this giant software ecosystem palatable for someone with constrained needs, such as myself or any of you: hypervised computers are the future of safe and networked computing.

Do I know how to use Sunbeam? Not very much. But I'll hack away at it once I get it installed on my Ubuntu on a computer I've been using personally until I knew how to avoid how run #1 ended on TrueNAS. Due to the global economic crunch, I will have more time to do this once I get a windfall of cash, like a MacArthur grant. XD

SansIsSleeping Runs Cannot Last Forever !!!!

EDIT 2: This whole below section is outdated! This whole sleeping scene may be loopable forever. Yeeyyy :D See the link at the end.

This is obvious to people who know UNDERTALE very well. Unfortunately, I needed this explained to me by two kindly members of the tasvideos.org community. When I brought this 'droplet sharing' idea to TASVideos, I imagined I would be at a blockade: if i was so busy, how could I develop all I needed? Wouldn't I need some software? Was anyone familiar with running UNDERTALE with libTAS tools? I thought I would need to have the machine running UNDERTALE also stream that video out instead of have its video be captured, and I thought from an old YouTube video's theory that the only event that takes place while Sans is sleeping is a loop with an iterator. I was wrong--the only way for this run to last 'eternity' is for Sans' Zs to be recycled objects, and they aren't.

OceanBagel pointed out to me that there's a limit to how many objects can be created and destroyed in GameMaker games, and if that ecosystem isn't safely maintained and monitored, new objects will take the unique number addressed to older objects once the incredibly large iterating number loops around. This scene in UNDERTALE has this delightful limitation, as every Z of Sans is created as unique. ( <3 ). Computers, to avoid corrupting other pieces of data in memory, will limit the size of numbers and strings of text characters to a predefined limit of bytesize. In this case, the integer is giant. D1firehail suggested this giant integer would hit its upper limit, cycle back to its bottom limit and back to 0 after about 2997 years. You heard that right. This is a pretty reasonable 'eternity.' :)

Two Years of Sans Is Sleeping; Two Years in Run #2.

This is pretty astounding. In my research to possibly get my CISSP certification, I found about a term about "Mean Time Between Failures." I never looked this up on the laptop running Sans Run #2, so it must be greater than two years--the laptop hasn't failed yet. It's been me, who has! I accidentally shut down the desktop service, which luckily rebooted after my accident. I've messed up my home network many times trying to change DNS servers, trying to move Ethernet cables and update routers, and sometimes I've lost internet just because my ISP decided to randomly cancel my contract.

Despite all my hardware and network juggling, the laptop has held on. If I am lucky enough to move, I will need to research getting a portable hotspot so I could move to a new home, and keep the stream running via this mobile hotspot. I hope our internet would be hooked up fast--I'm not about to colocate this laptop in a hosting facility. :')

Thank you for everything. We are almost at 1,700 followers. In November, I expect to have an appointment time with a legal aid group that runs a day full of free appointments for non-profits. I expect they might give me ideas of legal structures for SansIsSleeping, Slumberer Sentinels, and other non-business entities like unions, trusts, and whatnot. Desert Bus for Hope started out as something like this, I figure. Would they need to hire a trucking union to run the bus 24/7? :)

Unauthorized Shoutout Event, June 2023?

So, for those of you who don't know, in the beginning of June I had the inspiration to change my home network setup. This was before I learned how to do a 'demilitarized zone,' and before I understood NAT, and technically, let's say I still don't really understand how deep this rabbit hole will go. In the middle of this, I thought it would be easy to change my home network, so I could have router with trusted connections, and a router simply to untrusted connections and as gateway to the whole internet. This is when I went to one of the computers still running the stream to check uptime, and noticed a strange, unauthorized Twitch shoutout.

Perhaps a user I gave mod privileges was playing a prank on me. Perhaps my laptop or my phone was hijacked in the past without my knowing, and this moment was when the network presence revealed itself. Perhaps it's the shock that troubled me on April 28th, 2023, with a growing acquaintance announcing dark wishes of being as 'evil' as it might be possibly recognized, and this person's statements coinciding with bad accidents simultaneously happening in real life. Maybe they were wanting to prank me as a one-year-old revert to Islam. Do I know? Unfortunately, I don't.

As a result, I pulled all my trusted home data servers offline. I updated my router softwares. I began the installation of intrusion detection systems (IDS), and just recently began deciding how to securely partition my home network into a DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) and a Trusted zone.

This is not my day job, and might be a distant relative of the web developer work I professionally did nine years ago.

International Historical Revisionism, Genocide

It's for all the above that I've tried to take things slowly, even as there is incredible violence internationally. I'm sure other users have had their Twitch accounts hacked. What have they done? And how involved can I be in such a giant Red Team VS Blue Team / Cybersecurity warzone as a single person?

I'm pretty sure Toby Fox might feel something like this, it's just I'm grateful he's likely had 7 to 8 years to meet the people who might help him protect himself and his works. I'm still meeting folk who are helping me, like Alex, Slab, Taingel, Ali (born4ready), and those who help me just survive in personal matters. Thank you for all you've done to help me, include you whom I have not listed.

There is so much going on that I've done my best to update the title of the stream with the latest vulnerability of human beings to systemic violence--like from coordinated groups, agencies, or policies beyond just one non-plural identity. It's hard to face all this and avoid "compassion fatigue." So I hope you show self-compassion.

It's easier for me to pray to G*d than it is to pray to any group I'd tokenize somehow. I pray for the good to be brought out in anything and everything, for it to shine, and for the end of elevating one nonconsentual violence over another.

Peace be upon you.

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Edit 1: OceanBagel updated me to think that these numbers (his calculation/formula) would be *much* less than 3000 years. 121? Thank you, OceanBagel. ^-^

4,294,967,295 instances * (80 frames / 3 instances) * (1 second / 30 frames) * (1 minute / 60 seconds) * (1 hour / 60 minutes) * (1 day / 24 hours) * (1 year / 365.25 days)

Edit 2: Eternity's BACK ON, baby!!

OceanBagel has suggested that no problem with instance collisions will happen unless you actually interface with the battle. I guess we'll see in a few tens of decades! :)

[leam1983]

Back at it

I'm settling in to work, and a colleague from IT decides to start my day on a rather annoying tone.

"Dude, why bother with all this hypervisor shit? Why don't you run on Windows like the rest of us? You know Linux in and out, you don't need to be in the same environment as the agents, right?"

I bother, esteemed colleague, for several reasons:

it keeps me in the right headspace. My VMs have dedicated IPs, so if something absolutely requires that I go back to Windows during my shift, I just need to open another Firefox window, slap in my Windows IP, fullscreen it, and I'm good to go. If Palpatine needs upkeep, that's where this happens. If all I need is to have a visual reference for Susan's lost scripts and their typical placement, I have my Linux Mint VM.

It's more responsible, environmentally. If every system I run had its dedicated rig, I'd have three, if not four computers to stash in the apartment, not counting Walt's and Sarah's. This way, I have my bigger, full-ATX VM rig that's perpetually on during weekdays, my mid-tower personal system that stays off until my shift ends, and my laptop. I know there's this line of belief that power-cycling "stresses" systems, but a computer that's off is a computer that sips no power and that tosses no added BTUs of heat into the apartment. Carbon emissions fucking matter.

It creates a work-life separation in a setting that doesn't allow me to have one. Even with a potential moving day coming up in September - more on that later - I'll likely keep working from home for the foreseeable future. If my spaces cannot be separated, my working environments can. Linux is for work, Windows is almost exclusively for play. It couldn't be any neater or clearer.

It's generally more secure. I'm the only one with Admin access to Palpatine, and the server itself is at the office, usually under lock and key. If I'm concerned that someone could want to access our backend during a visit to the apartment - as Walt sometimes is unable to schedule certain meetups at the office - I can just turn off my windows VM for however long is needed.

It's just more fun that way. I get that my Mint VM doesn't need IOMMU support and really has no need for a GPU passthrough, but giving my work VM discrete graphics makes XORG that much more fluid. Yes, I could run another distro for the sake of that sweet, sweet Wayland desktop design but again, I'm trying to maintain parity with folks running Mint, out of practicality and respect.

There's also the unspoken fun of being able to pull off what feels like black magic to non-savvy visitors and friends. "Hey, friendo! Check it out, doesn't it look like Baldur's Gate 3 is running on a shitty miniPC and is somehow maxed out? Don't you wonder which dark gods I could've beseeched in order to squeeze such power out of a dinky block of mediocre sillicon?"

I just wish Proxmox didn't depend on a host rig and client rigs, my unspoken IT-related wet dream involves switching VMs on the fly, all on bare metal.