Arbitrary thoughts, mostly on computery stuff. See Projects for more longform howtos.

troubleshooting

Reboot issues in Q35/UEFI KVM guests

1 minute read

For a while, I’ve been having issues when soft rebooting some of my older KVM guest machines: They would hang on reboot, and when connecting to the VM consol...

Getting My Ducks in a Row

1 minute read

My home environment is mostly set to auto-update when new things are available - including my hypervisors. Occasionally, things would restart but my web serv...

Evidence-based IT Operations

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A significant part of our time dealing with computers in some role or other, is spent troubleshooting why something happens that differs from what we intende...