#vms

There are strange little pockets of temporary compute all over the internet. Ghostbox makes them feel like one small machine.

Sylve aims to be a lightweight, open-source virtualization platform for FreeBSD, leveraging Bhyve for VMs and Jails for containerization, with deep ZFS integration. It seeks to provide a streamlined, Proxmox-like experience tailored for FreeBSD environments. It's backend is written in Go and the frontend is written in Svelte (with Kit).

I recently wanted to experiment with ChromeOS Flex but didn’t want to install it on a physical machine. I also was doing this without a USB key, which complicated things slightly. After some trial and error, there are two non-obvious steps to get the installer running: Properly mounting the .bin live USB image in a way that’s accessible to the VM Setting graphics drivers to something ChromeOS Flex supports, which enables the VM to successfully boot the live USB image

Packer is an open source tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration

Here are some tricks I use to make my vagrant boxes as small as possible:

Here are some tricks I use to make my vagrant boxes as small as possible:

When you create a virtual hard disk in VirtualBox or VMware, you specify a maximum disk size. If you want more space on your virtual machine’s hard disk later, you’ll have to enlarge the virtual hard disk and partition.

When you create a virtual hard disk in VirtualBox or VMware, you specify a maximum disk size. If you want more space on your virtual machine’s hard disk later, you’ll have to enlarge the virtual hard disk and partition.

"I just downloaded and installed Ubuntu Server 9.04 in a VM Image strictly for the purposes of setting up a simple local dev environment on my MacBook. This is the base image, which I want to configure with some useful but general capabilities."