I've been using FreeNAS/TrueNAS for over 8 years, and while it works great as a NAS, some of the idiosyncrasies made me decide to migrate to Ubuntu:

1. TrueNAS is based on FreeBSD, and while it's similar to Linux, it's not 100% the same.

2. The feature set of TrueNAS is overkill for my needs.

   • I'm simple home user.
   • I'm …

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I finally ironed out all of the issues with my KVM server, and to eliminate any of the left over junk, for lack of a better phrase, I nuked the server and reinstalled Ubuntu 20.04. For the record, junk consisted of various packages, their configurations, and system modifications, that I'd tried out in deciding how to …

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After setting up my KVM system, I quickly realized that the 1Tb hard drive I was using for KVM-related files wasn't going to cut it, so I bought a 4Tb drive to go along with it.

Inserted the new drive, and booted up the system.

Prechecks

• Before changing anything, dump the current config of the LVM VG, named kvm-vg …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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