wrmack

Pangolin on an EC2 instance

Steps I took to setup Pangolin on an AWS EC2 instance to access my home videos on an external drive attached to a Macbook Pro.

My setup at the start

VPS (virtual private server)

• an AWS EC2 instance running Amazon Linux 2023
• domain "wrmack.com" obtained through AWS Route 53; I had generated records for subdomains used for accessing different apps
• nginx reverse proxy server

Home

• Macbook Pro

wrmack

Linux on Macbook M1 using Apple virtualization

Tried with UTM but there is an issue with disk corruption. Until this is fixed in UTM I installed Ubuntu Linux using tart. Tart uses NVME.

1. Install tart:

brew install cirruslabs/cli/tart

2. I wanted the VM to be on an external SSD so needed to set the environment variable TART_HOME

# Set environment variable

wrmack

Windows 11 on MacBook M1 (ARM)

Steps I went through to install a Windows Insider Preview VHDX on a Macbook Pro using UTM. I needed Windows because I was developing an app to submit to the Microsoft Store. With the following setup I was able to develop an electron-based app and submit it to the Microsoft Store.

1. Download the VHDX from Windows Insider Previews. You need to register for the Insider Program and sign in.
   • under Select edition select the Canary channel and press Confirm
   • select language and confirm
   • press Download
2. Open UTM and press + to create a new virtual machine
   • Virtualize

• Windows