I have two KVM systems: one that run on my NAS, and one dedicated for KVM, which is also the one I use for lab testing.

I've found a couple of times where I've had a VM on my lab KVM that I wanted to move/migrate to my NAS (non-lab, or prod) KVM.

Not difficult to do, as both systems are set up the same way, …

I was trying to make a backup, but exclude my working directory, which just has a lot of temp files in it.

. . . easier said than done . . .

The concept is pretty easy, simply use the --exclude="file2exclude" switch option in the command, and the file(s)/directory(ies) listed will be excluded.

It didn't work. …

Virtual machines (VM) and their KVM host can't communicate over the network, which is by design.

There are times however, that I want to enable VM to KVM host communication, typically because the KVM host is hosting something else I want to access from the VM..

The two ways of doing this, along with the pros and cons: …

When away from home, it's always nice to be able to access devices, servers, services, on my home network.

In addition to accessing my home network's resources, if I route all of my traffic through my home network, I get the added benifit of avoiding insecure wireless networks.

There have been more than a few …

I was using Webvirtcloud install on my KVM device, but decided to switch to a Docker container, as I've been trying to move as much as possible to Docker, for the sake of simplicity, and easier recovery if/when something goes wrong.

The install was easy, but there were a few commands that had to be run as a different …

Trying to get a NFS mount mounted under /Volumes/ in OSX is more difficult than it sounds.

You basically have to trick OSX into allowing you to mount the NFS share in /Volumes/ by using ../ in the directory listing.

Example:

cd /System/Volumes/Data/Volumes

pwd
/System/Volumes/Data/Volumes

Using the ../ trick, which …