I started writing this in July but am publishing it in September. I realize not all of below seems accurate but I was just learning about Proxmox. After a mostly unsuccessful attempt at using my Dell R520 with Hyper-V Server 2019 as a hypervisor, I've officially run out of patients with both the OS and … Continue reading Dell R520: Lets try Proxmox (July 2021)
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Hyper-V 2019: Installing a second server, drivers included (throwback)
July 2021: Below is a blog post I wrote and re-wrote several times over the past 18 months at least. I have since decided to go in a different direction with hypervisors and the purpose of the this spare/old core i7. I've decided to publish this anyway as-is for reference in the future. And a … Continue reading Hyper-V 2019: Installing a second server, drivers included (throwback)
The Arcade Cab Project Part 2: Parts and components
This is a continuation the prior post about about the - as of now - hypothetical arcade cab project. I thought I should start listing some details of the "Mark I" as listed in part I. This project was largely inspired by a few posts on the /r/cade subreddit. It looked relatively easy and I … Continue reading The Arcade Cab Project Part 2: Parts and components
Extracting drivers from Windows
Since about 2014 (as I write this late-2019) I started buying these incredibly low-end and low-priced Intel Atom-based devices. There was something about a device running windows and coming in under $100 that never failed to fascinate me (actually I got a non-windows Atom device for around $45, as a novelty). Let me stop here … Continue reading Extracting drivers from Windows
The Arcade Cab Project (part 1)
I came up in the idea in 2014. And it's 2020. I'm still sort of working on it. Or thinking about working on it. That's the same, right? The form this cab would take and the plans around it have shifted and adapted over the past years. I assumed it would be much simpler than … Continue reading The Arcade Cab Project (part 1)
R520 Hyper-V 2019: News and updates (Late Nov 2019)
I mentioned in my prior post (updates to that post below) I had to re-install the Hyper-V server OS. This did indeed go smoothly and has worked since then. The main problem I have with the OS this time is very intermittent errors with connecting to it with Hyper-V manager. Server Manager works, WAC works … Continue reading R520 Hyper-V 2019: News and updates (Late Nov 2019)
R520 Hyper-V 2019: Lets try this again
After being very frustrated with the performance of the combination of virtual machines and my drive pool, I decided to re-install Hyper-V server 2019. Before doing so however I decided it would be a good idea to go through and record some settings in case I needed to go back to a prior configuration. It … Continue reading R520 Hyper-V 2019: Lets try this again
R520 Hyper-V 2019: Well that was fun
After spending I don't know how long on various adventures through first setting up Hyper-V 2019 on the server then further adventures of properly configuring networking on the server I've come to the conclusion the performance of the virtual machines is not good enough. I went through several iterations of what I'm loosely calling "benchmarks" … Continue reading R520 Hyper-V 2019: Well that was fun
Hyper-V 2019: The v-switchening
This is a follow up post to my several prior posts about both Hyper-V 2019 as an OS, using the Hyper-V hypervisor for virtualization and my server hardware of choice, the Dell R520. I have a summary and conclusions clarifying the things I learned as I wrote this post at the bottom. Any corrections/comments etc … Continue reading Hyper-V 2019: The v-switchening
Hyper-V 2019, on a R520
This is a follow up post to my several prior posts about both Hyper-V 2019 as an OS, using the Hyper-V hyper-visor for virtualization and my server hardware of choice the Dell R520. This post will act as both re-write and follow-up to my previous post about Hyper-V 2019. I'm going to just leave the … Continue reading Hyper-V 2019, on a R520
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