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Debian Leftovers
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Feld ☛ Debian Not Reusing DHCP Leases
A while back I posted about the very undesirable behavior of systemd releasing DHCP leases when shutting down which removes the entry from DNS and causes you to be unable to easily ping/monitor the host as it's rebooting or even look up what IP address it had while it was running.
Recently a new problem cropped up for me: Debian keeps getting a new DHCP lease (read: new IP address, when the old lease was not expired yet!), and the hostname is not following it.
After some debugging I found two problems.
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Instructionals/Technical
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Linux.org ☛ Proxmox VE Series Part 5: backdoored Windows Virtual Machine
Of course, many companies may need an Operating System (OS) other than Linux, such as Windows.
So, the setup is not a simple, straightforward installation like Linux. There are special drivers needed and even some special settings to change the virtual hardware.
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Emmanuel Kasper: Create a development VM using Debian cloud images
Following on the rationale of the previous post, here is how I create a development VM based on ready to use disk images made by the debian cloud team.
I could as well install the VM myself using an ISO, but why download a collection of packages in a ISO only to copy them right onto a disk image ?
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