Upgraded a bunch of stuff in my homelab last week! Added a new proxmox host and moved the plex server onto my old gaming PC with a new 16-bay JBOD from QNAP. I’ve run into a couple issues and wanted to make some notes for my future self if I need to solve them again. e1000 NIC hangs Under increased load, the NIC on my old gaming PC would hang and fall off the network. It had only happened once or twice before and it wasn’t worth the extra investigation yet. With the plex VM now on that box, the […]
To create an Ubuntu VM for a Kubernetes cluster using Proxmox, follow these steps: download and tweak the base image, sysprep it, create a template with specified configurations, and clone the VM. Adjust settings such as memory, storage, and IP configurations. Fix shared IP issues by resetting the machine ID.
As we near what might be the final days of Hackintoshing, I tried out a VM-based technique for installing MacOS, complete with full-speed GPU, and you know what? It worked amazingly well.