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Recycle That Old PC and Build a Proxmox Virtual Environment

Friday, December 31st, 2010 – running time 33:12
This time on Hak5 Darren brings new life to an old editing rig with Proxmox-VE, an open source virtualization platform.

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OpenVZ, KVM and Proxmox-VE

What is Virtualization

  • Virtual rather than physical versions of something such as a server or router
Why Virtualize?
  • Increase hardware utilization
  • Save space & electricity
  • Backups & load balancing / migrations
Home Virtual Server
  • Experiment with new servers
  • Create virtual test network for hacking
  • Run services such as home media servers
Proxmox VE types of Virtualization
  • Container Virtualization
    • OpenVZ
    • OS level based on Linux kernel
    • Isolated containers; VPS or VE
    • Host & Guest must be Linux
    • Performance close to native
  • Full Virtualization
    • KVM
    • Kernel-based Virtual Machine
    • Supports Intel-VT & AMD-V
    • Supports wide variety of OS incl. Win
Proxmox VE Hardware Requirements
  • 64-bit Intel or AMD
  • Intel-VT or AMD-V for KVM
  • 1+ GB RAM, 4+ better
  • HDD or RAID
  • 1 or more NICs
  • Basically any hardware supported by Debian Lenny 64bit
Installation

00:38

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Packaging with the QT SDK

Jason Appelbaum wraps up his series on the QT SDK

14:51

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Setting up Virtual Machines

Post-installation Darren tours the Proxmox-VE web management interface and deploys a new virtual machine

20:21

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