June, 2012

How to use Remote Desktop connection against Ubuntu »

How to use Remote Desktop connection against Ubuntu 12.04

Note : If you are using ubuntu 12.10, please follow the instructions described in this post   Hello World, As you probably know, I like to use remote desktop protocol in order to connect to my ubuntu systems.  By installing a small piece of software called xRDP, you can from windows machines connect remotely to your Ubuntu system

Proxmox VE 2.0 – Nesting Virtual KVM Machines »

Proxmox VE 2.0 – Nesting Virtual KVM Machines

Hello World, I have recently received questions/requests about nested virtual machines within Proxmox VE. I've been asked to confirm that Proxmox VE 2.0 was offering nesting capabilities and how you would configure your hypervisor in order to achieve this. For people how does not know, nesting consist of virtualizing an hypervisor such as

Proxmox VE 2.0 – Move VM files from one Storage »

Proxmox VE 2.0 – Move VM files from one Storage Location to another one

Hello World, I've received an interesting question recently.  One of my friend started playing around with Proxmox VE 2.0. He created Virtual machines and stored the files on the local disks. With time, the virtual infrastructure was growing and growing.  The local storage started to fill up and he asked me if there was an easy way to

Proxmox VE – How to reset forgotten root »

Proxmox VE – How to reset forgotten root password

Hello World, It happens to me recenlty.  I have found an old Proxmox VE machine where I didn't log into it for months.  That was time to decommission this test machine but I wanted to check what was left on this Proxmox VE instance.  Yes, I have to admit it.  I completely forgot the password of the root account on this machine. I was

Ubuntu 12.04 – Change the login background »

Ubuntu 12.04 – Change the login background Screen – Another Way

  Hello World, In this post, we have demonstrated how easy it was to customize the login screen of an Ubuntu 12.04 computer.  If you have read the post, you have to admit that the process is really simple.  You select your desktop background and automatically Ubuntu will use this image as login background image as well. This is okay