Migrating Debian 13 from VMware ESXi to Proxmox: Fixing Networking and Installing QEMU Guest Agent By William Rendell | 23 October 2026 As part of my ongoing migration from VMware ESXi to Proxmox VE, I’ve been moving several virtual machines across to our new Proxmox cluster. One of these was […]
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My GivEnergy system does most of the work when it comes to storing solar energy and powering the house. But there are times when the house needs more power than the main battery system can deliver. Rather than leave my EcoFlow batteries working to a fixed discharge schedule, I use […]
If an iPhone won’t connect to MikroTik Wi-Fi, even though it can see the network and you’ve entered the password, this might help. I recently encountered exactly that problem on my home network and traced it to an unexpected CAPsMAN configuration setting. My setup uses a MikroTik RB5009 router with […]
The Energy Stats page on this website provides a live view of how electricity is being generated, stored and used around my home. What began as a relatively conventional solar and battery installation has gradually developed into a much broader home energy project involving solar panels, a GivEnergy system, BLUETTI […]
Every afternoon at 4pm, my Home Assistant system looks at the next 24 hours of Octopus Agile electricity prices and creates a charging plan for my home battery systems. Rather than charging everything during a fixed overnight period, the automation examines all 48 half-hour Agile slots, identifies the best-value periods […]
End of July 2026 Miles and Mason aka MX2 preformed at their first festival…. the Cheltenham 7’s festival.
The below command will list the domains in a postfix queue, with the numbers of mails for the domain.
That displays the queue summary and refreshes it every 30 seconds. Press Ctrl+C when you want to stop it.
sudo dnf update -y curl -o webmin-setup-repo.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/webmin/webmin/master/webmin-setup-repo.shsudo sh webmin-setup-repo.sh sudo dnf install webmin -y sudo systemctl enable webminsudo systemctl start webmin sudo systemctl status webmin sudo firewall-cmd –add-port=10000/tcp –permanentsudo firewall-cmd –reload https://SERVER-IP:10000
Step 1 – Install the QEMU Guest Agent inside Debian sudo apt updatesudo apt install qemu-guest-agent -y Step 2 – Enable and Start the Service sudo systemctl enable qemu-guest-agentsudo systemctl start qemu-guest-agent Check its running sudo systemctl status qemu-guest-agent Step 3 – Enable the Guest Agent in Proxmox Now switch […]
Set up a virtual IP on proxmox cluster apt updateapt install keepalived -y nano /etc/keepalived/keepalived.conf run this on all nodes on the master node add this to the keepalived.conf vrrp_instance VI_1 {state MASTERinterface vmbr0virtual_router_id 51priority 150advert_int 1 } on the slave nodes add this to keepalived.conf vrrp_instance VI_1 {state BACKUPinterface […]
From a Windows powershell terminal in the above just change name/ip-here to the name or ip of what you are testing then change port-number-here to the port number you need to check. Test-NetConnection -ComputerName 8.8.8.8 -Port 53 The above example is checking if TCP/IP port 53 (DNS) is open on […]