Windows

Use import and export feature, when you want to create a new virtual machine with the same configuration of an existing machine in Hyper-V. The exported virtual machine files are saved in the server, and can be reused as many time as you want to create new VM. Machine generates new SID while importing from [...]

Synergy is an open source network utility which can be used to share one keyboard and mouse with multiple systems. Synergy utility works on client-server model. The system whose keyboard and mouse you want to share, runs the synergy server service (synergys), and all the other systems runs the synergy client service (synergyc) to connect [...]

As a Linux sysadmin, for some reason, if you are thrown into a virtualization environment that also has Windows, you should be aware that there two ways to create VM in a Hyper-V server. You can create VM either using the powershell commands from the Hyper-V server, or using a GUI interface from Hyper-V manager, [...]

If you are thrown into a situation where someone already installed a Windows Hyper-V server for virtualization, it is helpful to understand how to perform certain basic sysadmin operations like creating a new VM. Once you’ve installed the Hyper-V server free stand-alone version, you can create a new VM using one of the following methods: [...]

Sometimes as a Linux Sysadmin, you might end-up in a situation where you may have to manage some Windows server as part of your virtualization strategy. In those situations, it is good to know some fundamentals of how to manage Hyper-V virtualization on Windows. If you like to manage the Hyper-V server from a GUI, [...]

As a Linux sysadmin, sometimes you might end-up in a situation where you install a Linux distro as a Guest OS on a Windows based Virtualization software. In those situations, it is helpful to understand some basics of Windows virtualization technologies. Hyper-V is a Windows Server Virtualization based on Hypervisor technology, which enables virtualization on [...]

You already know how powerful rsync utility is on Linux platform. One of the useful feature of rsync is that it can incrementally copy big files. i.e If you have a huge file (especially backups), that keeps changing every day, but you don’t need to copy the whole file. Instead using rsync, you can copy [...]