On my new KVM system, I had a SSD for the Ubuntu OS, but wanted a separate LVM Logical Volume for the KVM-related files/folder, such as ISO files, KVM images, etc.

LVM understands hard drives without a partition table, and you can use the entire drive for LVM without partitioning. The drawback is that we'll have to use …

I recently installed WebVirtCloud for a browser-based way of administrating my KVM server remotely.

Originally, I used the auto-install script provided, which required some changes to get it to work/work correctly on Ubuntu Server 20.04.

Looking further into the auto-install script, I decided to document how to do a …

I recently bought a new headless server to handle virtual machines.

I decided to go with the built-in KVM ability of Ubuntu, and used Ubuntu Server 20.04 since it's a LTS (Long Term Support) release.

Unfortunately, there is no built-in ability to remotely manage virtual machines, and while I love the command line, I …

I bought a new server, specifically to run virtual machines (VMs).

KVM described, directly from RedHat:

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is an open source virtualization technology built into Linux®. Specifically, KVM lets you turn Linux into a hypervisor that allows a host machine to run multiple, isolated virtual …

At some point, Ubuntu changed how you set the time zone from the command line.

The new way involves the command timedatectl

Check the current time/date/timezone:

timedatectl
               Local time: Fri 2021-06-04 18:19:45 UTC
           Universal time: Fri 2021-06-04 18:19:45 UTC
                 RTC time: Fri …

On bootup, my new Ubuntu server was stalling for ~2 minutes, while bringing up the network.

The message I saw was ". . . a start job is running for wait for network", which turns out was due to waiting for the 2nd (unused) interface to come up.

Of the 2 interfaces on the box, only one was connected:

ifconfig …