Autostart a KVM Domain

Again this is a quick note to explain myself how to set a kvm (domain/vm) autostart when the server boots up. To list autostart domains: virsh list --autostart To set a domian, e.g. dhcp1, to autostart: virsh autostart dhcp1 To disable autostart for a domain (e.g. named dhcp1): virsh autostart dhcp1 --disable Ref: KVM: Start a Virtual Machine / Guest At Boot Time

February 13, 2019 · 1 min · 63 words · Kenno

ZFS Testing on Fedora

When Fedora release kernel 4.20.*, the ZFS 0.7.12 could no longer compiled. Accoriding to the ZFS release page at Github zfs-0.7.12 is only compartible iwth kernels 2.6.32 - 4.19. At first I was going to just wait for the 0.8.0 release, and continue to use kernel 4.19. However, Fedora keeps releasing the updates of kernel 4.20. As of this writing, the current version of the kernel on Fedora 29 is 4....

January 31, 2019 · 2 min · 215 words · kenno

NVME Not Found on Boot With UEFI

A quick note to remind myself how to get NVME recognized on Dell XPS 15 9570 on Gentoo. Make sure to add the kernel BLK_DEV_NVME options. NVM Express block device (BLK_DEV_NVME) CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NVME: The NVM Express driver is for solid state drives directly connected to the PCI or PCI Express bus. If you know you don't have one of these, it is safe to answer N. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be called nvme....

January 17, 2019 · 1 min · 124 words · kenno

How to Connect to Hidden Wifi Using nmcli

Today I need to setup a wifi connection on a laptop to my home network with hidden SSID. Like so many things that I only have to do it once in a while, I couldn’t remember how to do it. So this blog post is something to remind me in the future should I need to do it agian. Here is one way to do it, thanks to this Stack Overflow question....

January 15, 2019 · 1 min · 188 words · kenno

Fix Dbus Daemon Autolaunch Was Disabled at Compile Time

When I tried to run notify-send on my laptop running Gentoo, it didn’t work and was given the following message: $ notify-send 'hello' Connecting to D-Bus failed: Using X11 for dbus-daemons autolaunch was disabled at compile time, set your DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS instead How do one set DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS? Accoridng to this, it can be done by running: $ export $(dbus-launch) However, I want to also have D-Bus compiled with X11 support. First let’s verify if D-Bus service is running:...

January 15, 2019 · 2 min · 238 words · kenno