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12:18 AM

I'm looking the most suitable virtualization platform for the following use case

1) Host is bare metal on Ubuntu (Xeon E-2100 processor, plenty of RAM and NVME disk space: I need to run less than a dozen VMs)
2) Guest VMs also Ubuntu, Xenial and Bionic mix
3) Guests need to have as native as possible access to hardware (to use security keys and HSMs such as YubiHSM2, and also for performance reasons)
4) Guests do not need to be hard constrained on resources, as I will be the single admin on all guests.

Journeyman Geek

12:58 AM

@Gaia do you want to manage it locally or remotely?

KVM works well. Not very hard to learn. Can run headless if you want

Does USB passthrough. Pci is trickier but doable if your processor does vt-d

There's gui and cli front ends

Gaia

3:21 AM

@JourneymanGeek remotely in a DC. But I will have IPMI access to it.

Some peeps seem to think LXC/LXD is a better option. I'd rather have more reliable USB passthrough.

Seth

3:46 AM

@Gaia LXC/LXD are not VMs, they're container platforms. They are fairly close but definitely not the same thing. Make sure they fit your usecase :)

Tim

4:29 AM

@Fabby I thought you might quite like this:

Journeyman Geek

4:44 AM

@Gaia KVM then

if it was a desktop I'd suggest considering virtualbox but KVM is about a million times better in most respects

I don't think containers are really designed for passthrough of hardware, but I could be wrong

vidarlo

7:31 AM

One more CV needed

dessert

there you go

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DK Bose

12:18 PM

Nice video on checking spellings and grammar: youtube.com/watch?v=kW7haxjvv6Q

DK Bose

12:37 PM

What do people think about askubuntu.com/questions/1144157/… ?

LeonidMew

@DKBose I think he still have ubuntu, but with some debian logo. I have some debian images in cinnamon ubuntu 18.04

DK Bose

@LeonidMew That's why providing the output Steeldriver asked for is important.

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

1:30 PM

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Q: How to install removed apt

I completely removed/uninstalled my apt-get because of problems I was having. I tried re-installing it with dpkg by runnung: $ sudo wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/a/apt/apt-transport-https_1.0.1ubuntu2.23_amd64.deb to install apt-transport-https then it's dependency: $ sudo...

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Rinzwind

@DKBose standard result when mixing different sources. he mixed kali with ubuntu.

DK Bose

@Rinzwind that cocktail has resulted in quite a hangover! I'm sure if the question was better framed people may have been able to help.

Rinzwind

1:55 PM

nah its been asked before.

Journeyman Geek

2:13 PM

@UbuntuQuestionsonU&L Ow

Kulfy

@JourneymanGeek Answered :)

Journeyman Geek

@Kulfy still an owwy situation

broken package managers are not fun

DK Bose

Is there any advantage to using "sudo apt install tasksel and sudo tasksel install kubuntu-desktop" as opposed to directly using sudo apt install kubuntu-desktop? Inspired by askubuntu.com/questions/1144296/…

Kulfy

@JourneymanGeek But they give future lessons to not to mess them.

Journeyman Geek

@DKBose in this case, probably not

@Kulfy one of my old distros had a release with a borked package manager out of the box... ;p

Kulfy

2:18 PM

borked? Is it a typo or pun?

DK Bose

@JourneymanGeek looks like this poster is in some sort of trouble after using tasksel: askubuntu.com/questions/1144296/…

Journeyman Geek

@Kulfy its a reference to the swedish chef

@DKBose If memory serves tasksel is more for CLI boxen

DK Bose

@JourneymanGeek hmmm ... this one clearly is using a desktop. Anyway, it's now not clear how deep the mess is.

Journeyman Geek

@DKBose OP could still use apt to remove the KDE stuff

He just needs to know what packages ._.

Kulfy

@JourneymanGeek Really? I thought it's a pun since we are doggo :-P. Google wants to say something else: obstruct (someone, especially a candidate for public office) by systematically defaming or vilifying them. "‘We're going to bork him’, said an opponent"

Zanna

2:22 PM

@JourneymanGeek maybe fun if you made the system only to play with a broken package manager

Journeyman Geek

@Kulfy youtube.com/watch?v=sY_Yf4zz-yo

@Zanna alas no

DK Bose

@JourneymanGeek okay, via an edit the process was aborted so no actual damage resulted.

Journeyman Geek

but back then I had more time than money and sense.

Zanna

if only I had more time and money and sense :/

Journeyman Geek

@Zanna you can earn money and blunder your way into sense ;p

Kulfy

2:25 PM

@JourneymanGeek Heck!!! Badminton with meatballs.

DK Bose

Bork was a US Supreme Court nominee.

Journeyman Geek

Clearly y'all didn't spend your childhood watching the muppets

or animaniacs

Which is a show you absolutely need to rewatch as an adult

Kulfy

I grew up watching Cartoon Network :/

Journeyman Geek

oh, this is before that

Zanna

@JourneymanGeek I have been working for 16 years and all I have are stories

Journeyman Geek

2:27 PM

They actually kept making fun of fox's censors

Zanna

haha I vaguely remember that show

Journeyman Geek

@Zanna I think I rewatched that...

Zanna

the Simpsons was always mocking Fox too

Journeyman Geek

and there was a lot of "THEY WHAT?"

"SERIOUSLY?"

for example... youtube.com/watch?v=1xmAC9Qu908&gl=SG&hl=en-GB

Zanna

so a few months back sound stopped working on my laptop. Darn. I did nothing because I rarely need audio on this

Journeyman Geek

2:29 PM

oh damn

Zanna

yesterday someone commented on an answer of mine saying "this still works... now it installs kernel 5 something something"

so I was like oh I need to get this new kernel

so I literally followed my own answer and it fixed the problem

Journeyman Geek

._.

That happens to me sometimes

Zanna

I wish I had put in like 30 seconds of effort to figure that out earlier...

but thank you Stack Exchange for making up for my laziness

@JourneymanGeek slightly embarrassing hahaha

Journeyman Geek

@Zanna I go "thank you past me" and carry on

almost as bad as seeing an interesting question

then realising you answered it a few years ago.

Zanna

hahaha

Seth

4:00 PM

speaking of following your own answer..

I wrote an answer that a friend learned how to do x from

fast forward ~4 years

and he re-taught me how to do x

from something he learned. from my answer.

Zanna

4:25 PM

haha awesome

Seth

somehow I missed that kernel 5 came out lol

WinEunuuchs2Unix

@Fabby They've totally retitled the question and closed the predecessor as a dupe of this question now. @LeonidMew To answer your question I would leave your answer there now: askubuntu.com/a/1144089/307523

Zanna

@Seth the kernel people are always busy :)

Seth

truth

Zanna

I missed it too :(

WinEunuuchs2Unix

4:39 PM

@Seth and @Zanna for me as well. When googling a problem today sometimes I come across a solution I posted years ago. The more things change the more they stay the same :) As for Kernel 5.0 it was simply Kernel 4.21 or something given a new number but no real ground breaking features.

Zanna

they are pretty strict about what they allow in

Ubuntu Questions on U&L

5:08 PM

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Q: pactl refuses to take negative percent values?

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Fabby

6:27 PM

@Tim Ouch! There are so many things wrong with that, it 's funny!

@WinEunuuchs2Unix No worries: I upvoted already anyway! :-) I just had to read it twice to know what you were blabbering about.

>:-) ;-)

Tim

7:44 PM

@Fabby not ideal is it 😂😂

Fabby

@vidarlo Is Stavanger's local language that different from Nynorsk and Bokmål???

@Tim My budget has never looked like that...

How are you doing nowadays anyway???

Tim

8:03 PM

Not to bad, just procrastinating from exam revision atm

Fabby

It's good to let your hair down once in a while...

vidarlo

8:59 PM

@fabby everyone talks dialect

stavanger dialect is quite far from either, yes

Fabby

9:15 PM

@vidarlo Ah, I had a job interview with someone originating from there yesterday!

An answer that includes a flaming whirlwind of stars deserves a star and an upvote!

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vidarlo

@fabby ah, in norwegian? :D

Fabby

Nah, English. I only found out he was Norwegian when he told me he could thing in Kg and Meters and I didn't need to translate into feet and pounds.

When I asked him: "Nynorsk or Bokmål?", he answered "Stavanger"

>:-)

vidarlo

hehe

stavanger's a fairly international city

due to oil

so I'm not surprised they have a very good english

and in Bergen it's britis english that dominates, due to close ties over the north sea. In Stavanger it's american, due to texans

Fabby

@vidarlo Well, he's been US-based for 10 years, so I missed the accent.

Thanks for the upvote! I hope it made you laugh!

@LeonidMew If you need a laugh too: see above link! ;-)

Rinzwind

does anyone know how to make the file name text longer on desktop icons?

jacob once told me how but I can't remember

Fabby

9:40 PM

@JacobVlijm ---^ Rinzwind is an idiot... >:-)

Jacob Vlijm

@Fabby Hehe, file name text longer?

@Rinzwind?

Fabby

>:-)

Rinzwind

@JacobVlijm short memory ey?

see ->

Fabby

(and the search in the chat room is acting up)

Jacob Vlijm

Hah, wait slowly getting what you mean...

Rinzwind

9:43 PM

text is cut off and you gave me a command for that

gsettings? :P

Jacob Vlijm

Aaaaah, you mean ellipsize on Nemo :)

Rinzwind

if you say so >:)

Jacob Vlijm

Wait, need to fire up my 19.04

Rinzwind

:X

Jacob Vlijm

org/nemo/desktop/text-ellipsize-limit

Mar 29 at 21:58, by Jacob Vlijm

/org/nemo/desktop/text-ellipsis-limit

Rinzwind

9:49 PM

yay

damn I was sure I asked that in june :D

Jacob Vlijm

Ask me again in June, and you'll be correct.

Rinzwind

I got is saved now :+

now to get BT working :P

Jacob Vlijm

A pity.

Now I feel useless :)

Rinzwind

that's a good thing +

Rinzwind

11:00 PM

@JacobVlijm nee he krijgen we dat eurovisie gezeik het hele jaar nu :X

Fabby

@Rinzwind 2020 - The Netherlands!

Byte Commander

0 points for Germany from the public vote.

Shame.

Again.

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