Overview Well. It's come to this. The end of the road. We've come a long way. I've shown you everything I've learned so far and it culminates into this last machine. A virtual machine that is a gaming rig. Buckle up, it's going to be an in-depth ride! We are…
Overview So... We've covered a lot of ground so far in this series and have quite a few things on our home network. The most interesting of them are a Plex server, Calibre-Web server and a file server. In each case, we can access these services from nearly any device...…
Overview So you got Plex up and running, and that's great! But what about all of your ebooks? Wouldn't it be nice to have those self hosted and accessible from any device as well? I thought so, too! One of the most popular ebook managers out there is an app…
Overview In our last post, we identified some of the main differences and use cases for Docker and are ready to start experimenting! In order to maximize our resources, we will be taking experimental services, or long term services with a small footprint that do not merit a full VM,…
Overview Let's take a break from "How to" and let's take a look at "Why" and "When"... So far in the series, we've: Built a server Set it up for virtualizationBuilt a VMTurned it into a samba serverBuilt another VMTurned it into a Plex server We could keep creating VMs…
Overview Welcome back to the blog series! Now that we've set up the virtualization server and our first virtual machine (a file sharing samba server), We are now ready to start getting some use out of the setup. Let's talk Services! Let's talk.... Plex! Plex is like your own personal…
NOTE: This post assumes you already have a samba server set up (if you have not yet set up a samba server, please check out my other post on samba server configuration here). Overview Last week we showed you how to connect to a samba share from a windows client.…
Overview I will note, before we begin, that there is a very solid argument against virtualizing your file server. Many argue that it should be a separate and dedicated box. This is a great idea… however… given the requirements we started with at the beginning of this series- a small(ish)…
Overview If you've been following this series, get ready to create your first virtual machine! This first virtual machine isn't the most exciting thing on the surface, but will lay the foundation for other virtual machines, including the Samba file sharing server in the next post! The high level view…
Welcome back to the blog series! After reading this, you'll have the power to start creating virtual machines of your own on your virtualization server! We'll be making heavy use of the SSH connection that we've set up in the previous post. While there are several different options for hypervisors,…