Incus is a manager for virtual machines and system containers. A virtual machine is an instance of an operating system that runs on a computer, along with the main operating system. A virtual machine uses hardware virtualization features for the separation from the main operating system. A system container is an instance of an operating …
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Jan 12 2024
Migrating to Incus from LXD
Incus is a manager for virtual machines and system containers. A virtual machine is an instance of an operating system that runs on a computer, along with the main operating system. A virtual machine uses hardware virtualization features for the separation from the main operating system. A system container is an instance of an operating …
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May 10 2021
A gentle introduction to security fuzzing and the Advanced Fuzzing League++ (afl++)
Writing software is similar to translating from one language to another. Specifically, it is similar to translating from your native language to some other language. You are translating to that other language so that you can help those others do some task for you. You might not understand this other language very well, and some …
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Feb 09 2021
How to get LXD containers obtain IP from the LAN with ipvlan networking
You are using LXD containers and you want a container (or more) to use an IP address from the LAN (or, get an IP address just like the host does). LXD currently supports four ways to do that, and depending on your needs, you select the appropriate way. Using macvlan. See https://blog.simos.info/how-to-make-your-lxd-container-get-ip-addresses-from-your-lan/ Using bridged. See …
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Sep 02 2020
How to use NordVPN in a LXD container
NordVPN is one of many VPN services. I was asked to have a look at how to make it work in a LXD container and as a result I am writing this post. I am not advertising this service, nor do I use affiliate links, etc. Up to now, NordVPN have refused to fix their …
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Jun 17 2020
Using ibus-typing-booster for predictive typing in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Update 16 July 2020: The package ibus-typing-booster has been accepted to Debian/Ubuntu. Therefore, you do not need anymore to use the testing PPA that was mentioned in the original post here. This post has been updated to reflect the change. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS has switched to using the IBus input framework for most (all?) languages, …
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