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Ghostbox — Disposable little dev machines

Sat, 02 May 2026 17:51:12 +0000

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

Tags: #linux #ssh #sysadmin #vms

AlchemillaHQ/Sylve: Lightweight GUI for managing Bhyve, Jails, ZFS, networking, and more on FreeBSD

Fri, 15 Aug 2025 17:14:28 +0000

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).

Tags: #bsd #homelab #sylve #sysadmin #vms

Creating a Proxmox or QEMU ChromeOS Flex VM | Kevin David

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 04:29:46 +0000

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

Tags: #chromeos #dev #proxmox #vms

Introduction - Packer

Fri, 31 Jan 2014 02:18:34 +0000

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

Tags: #devops #imported:pinboard #packer #vms

Reducing vagrant box size | vStone Blog

Tue, 13 Aug 2013 16:46:43 +0000

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

Tags: #dev #imported:pinboard #vagrant #vms

Reducing vagrant box size | vStone Blog

Tue, 13 Aug 2013 16:46:43 +0000

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

Tags: #dev #vagrant #vms

How To Enlarge a Virtual Machine’s Disk in VirtualBox or VMware

Fri, 31 May 2013 00:53:53 +0000

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.

Tags: #imported:pinboard #ubuntu #virtualbox #vms #windows

How To Enlarge a Virtual Machine’s Disk in VirtualBox or VMware

Fri, 31 May 2013 00:53:53 +0000

Tags: #ubuntu #virtualbox #vms #windows

Josh Matthews: A Firefox dev VM?

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:20:15 +0000

Tags: #firefox #mozilla #tech #vm #vms

Better local development with VMs | Open Komodo

Tue, 26 May 2009 16:51:46 +0000

"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."

Tags: #linux #osx #vms