Virtualization

How to pass-through RNDIS USB dongle from host to virtual machine.

Simply passing of USB device to qemu virtual machine usually works well. I had no troubles passing most of devices, but passing of USB-modem gave me a headache. VM got the following error during boot: -110 code is not meaningful and I started to dig into host’s logs. This is a sample of dmesg logs. …

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Running QEMU VM with the latest kernel inside 2.6 OpenVZ container.

There are many of cheap NAT OpenVZ VPSes on market. However, OpenVZ virtualization has certain limitations and comes with old 2.6 kernel. Hosting provider can decide to disable tun/tap, nfs or another core feautures, which makes VPS very limited in usage. At this article we will break the rules and run latest Alpine Linux inside …

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How to install Android x86 6.0, 7.0 on VMWare ESXi. Warning, many screenshots.

I don’t know why, but installing Android x86 6.0 and 7.0 on VMWare ESXi is not quite simple as it should be. The short story 1) Correctly make bootable disk2) Install Android3) Modify GRUB with “nomodeset xforcevesa” parameters to boot android4) Fix parameters in GRUB after android loads And the long story First, download Android …

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