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Jan 29 2018
Background: LXD is a hypervisor that manages machine containers on Linux distributions. You install LXD on your Linux distribution and then you can launch machine containers into your distribution running all sort of (other) Linux distributions. When you launch a new LXD container, there is a parameter for an instance type. Here it is, $ …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.simos.info/how-to-use-lxd-instance-types/
Jan 23 2018
Hetzner just announced a new set of cloud servers at good competitive prices. Let’s try them out and run LXD! Cloud server information Here is the lineup of the new cloud servers, The cheapest is a single-core, 2GB RAM and 20GB disk Virtual Private Server, with practically unlimited traffic. This is good enough to run …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.simos.info/a-closer-look-at-the-new-hetzner-cloud-servers-by-running-lxd/
Jan 22 2018
Update 22 June 2020 I have updated this post to be compatible with LXD 4.0. I also adapted it in order to create an empty profile that does only the macvlan stuff and is independent of the default profile. Finally, I am calling the profile macvlan (previous name: lanprofile). WARNING #1: By using macvlan, your …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.simos.info/how-to-make-your-lxd-container-get-ip-addresses-from-your-lan/
Jan 03 2018
The original post here is now obsolete and it has been replaced by the following: Simos Xenitellisblog.simos.info/
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.simos.info/how-to-preconfigure-lxd-containers-with-cloud-init/
Dec 29 2017
retdec (RETargetable DECompiler) is a decompiler, and it is the one that was released recently as open-source software by Avast Software. retdec can take an executable and work back into recreating the initial source code (with limitations). An example with retdec Let’s see first an example. Here is the initial source code, that was compiled …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.simos.info/installing-retdec-on-ubuntu/
Dec 14 2017
If you want to run a machine container, you would use LXD. But if you want to run a virtual machine, you would use multipass. multipass is so new, that is still in beta. The name is not known yet to Google, and you get many weird results when you search for it. Both containers …
Permanent link to this article: https://blog.simos.info/multipass-management-of-virtual-machines-running-ubuntu/
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