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Install VirtualBox guest additions onto Ubuntu server guests

Note

The following steps have been successfully tested with Ubuntu guests of:

• 24.04LTS
• 22.04LTS
• 18.04LTS
• 16.04LTS

rahilwazir

VMDK to VHDX

Follow [steps][1]:

• Download: http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/1/E/91E9F42C-3F1F-4AD9-92B7-8DD65DA3B0C2/mvmc_setup.msi (thanks @xavery)
• Open Powershell as administrator and run Import-Module 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter\MvmcCmdlet.psd1'
• And after ConvertTo-MvmcVirtualHardDisk -SourceLiteralPath d:\scratch\vmx\VM-disk1.vmdk -VhdType DynamicHardDisk -VhdFormat vhdx -destination c:\vm-disk1

p7cq

Fedora: Root on ZFS

• Fedora: 28
• ZFS on Linux: 0.7.9

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Note: for newer Fedora releases see Reliably boot Fedora with root on ZFS.

A. Prepare source

1. Download Fedora Workstation network installer image.

allenyllee

#!/bin/bash

# install qemu utils
sudo apt install qemu-utils

# install nbd client
sudo apt install nbd-client

s3rgeym

Вся суть харча™ (на самом деле все далеко не так...)

Установка Arch Linux с шифрованием всего диска либо раздела и Btrfs

lbrame

Arch Linux tweaks

This is a collection of the tweaks and modification I've made to my Arch Linux installation over the months. These may be applicable to other distros, but please check first before doing anything. I also included Arch Wiki references for all the procedures I mentioned. My recommendation is not to blindly follow this gist but to always check with the Arch Linux wiki first. Things move fast and by the time you're reading this my gist may be out of date. Lastly, the golden rule: never execute a command you don't understand.

Installing the KDE Plasma desktop

My current DE of choice is KDE's Plasma. I find it just about perfect.

There are various ways to install it on Arch. The most popular one is to install plasma and plasma-applications, but I don't like doing that because it comes with too many programs I'll never use. I, instead, install the base plasma group, remove the few extra packages that come with it, then I finish off by installing a few KDE apps that don't come with th

Soulsuke

NOTE: requires an EFI bios, so zfs will not use the whole disk as this is a single disk scenario.



/*\
|* Prerequisite: preare archiso with zfs support
\*****************************************************************************/

// 0. Do everything as root.

p7cq

Arch Linux Root on ZFS

Installation steps for running Arch Linux with root on ZFS using UEFI and systemd-boot. All steps are run as root.

Requires an Arch Linux image with ZFS built-in (see References).

In live environment

If using KVM, add a Serial number for each virtual disk and reboot the VM. The disks should now be available in /dev/disk/by-id as virtio-<Serial>.

Adito5393

Install Arch Linux with ZFS root filesystem, zfs-dkms, ZFSBootMenu, Pacman Auto-snapshots, Secure Boot enabled

Configure system BIOS

Disable Secure Boot. ZFS modules can not be loaded if Secure Boot is enabled.

ZFS automated install script

Before moving on I need to point out that there exists a script that can automate the configuration and install of a ZFS root system. However as convenient as it sounds the script is limited in flexibility and scope. These limitation cannot be overcome unless one has the time and compacity to edit the script to their liking. If you want to install a ZFS root system as quickly as possible and don't care about any particulars than take a good look at this github page.

azmarifdev

Install ZSH on Linux and make it your default Shell

Bash (Bourne Again Shell) is the default command-line shell on many distributions. Zsh (Z Shell) is a powerful shell that operates as both an interactive shell and as a scripting language interpreter.

🚀 Installation

1. Install the zsh package:

• Ubuntu/Mint:

sudo apt install zsh

• Fedora: