Creating a Swap Ubuntu

Check System for Swap Info Check current swaps on your system sudo swapon --show Verify you have enough hard drive space for a swap free -h Check Available Hard drive partition Space Verify the hard drive storage details df -h Create the Swap File Create the Swap file - Replace…

Increasing VM disk Space

* Load the GParted ISO as a disc - boot from the disk (esc) give you the booth list with the Default ProxMox bios. * Increase the disk (likely sda1)…

Installing Docker on New VMs

After creating several VMs from the Cloud-Init template, I used ansible to install commonly used applications, iftop, qemu-guest-agent, and a few others. I then install docker using the following from the docker site. NOTE: I'm installing the Docker Engine, not the Desktop Version! Add Docker's official…

LGSM Game Servers

Using LGSM: * Install LGSM with Default MineCraft Settings * Navigation to ~/serverfiles/ * use wget to pull the correct MineCraft Server jar from https://fabricmc.net/use/server/ * Rename this to match the minecraft_server.jar previously in the folder * Navigate to ~ * Run ./mcserver debug * Test a User can login to the…

Home Lab Adventures

I recently received a Dell PowerEdge R930 server, which is an upgrade from my previous R610 Dell PowerEdge Server. I’m excited to add it to my home lab! So far, I’ve successfully installed ProxMox on the R930. ProxMox is an excellent open-source virtualization platform that combines KVM-based virtualization,…