I finally got tired of my old 802.11n Apple Airport Express(!) that has been serving the kitchen part of our house with an Internet connection for many years. Effectively it tops out at ~100Mbps speeds and has pretty poor range. It is being replaced by a Ubiquiti Unifi6 Lite access point. In preparation for this,… Continue reading Deploying a Ubiquiti Unifi appliance with Ansible
Category: KVM/QEMU
Reflections on Proxmox VE
I’ve now been using Proxmox VE as a hypervisor in my home lab for a couple of years, and as I’ve reverted to plain Ubuntu Server + KVM, I figured I would try to summarize my thoughts on the product. Proxmox VE can be described as a low-cost and open-source alternative to VMware vSphere with… Continue reading Reflections on Proxmox VE
IPv6 guests in KVM
I’ve been experimenting with IPv6 at home, and spent some time trying to get it working in my virtual machines. The first symptom I got was that VMs got a “Network unreachable” error when trying to ping6 anything but their own address. The cause was a complete brainfart on my side: We need a loopback interface… Continue reading IPv6 guests in KVM