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, …

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I created an Ubuntu desktop virtual machine (VM) on my KVM system, and shortly after I started using it, I realized that I hadn't allocated/created a large enough hard drive for my use.

I have a "master" Ubuntu VM that I clone when I need an Ubuntu VM, which is set up and configured they way I like it.

I had …

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I was doing some testing of using a Samba share for OSX's Time Machine backup, and needed to verify that it would actually work.

My initial test simply made sure that the Samba share showed up as an option in the Time Machine preferences, but I needed to run a Time Machine backup.

However, the Ubuntu VM I've been using …

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