Mouse button Copy & Paste on Ubuntu 20.04
Using the left mouse button to select and copy text in terminals and the middle mouse button to paste has been a feature of X-Windows, and the various window managers built on top of X-Windows, since...
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After writing my last article on Getting NVIDIA NGC containers to work with VMware PVRDMA networks I had a couple of people ask me “How do I set up PVRDMA networking on vCenter?” These are the steps...
View ArticleQuickly create guest VMs using virsh, cloud image files, and cloud-init
After the latest updates to the code these scripts now create VMs from full Linux distros in a few seconds. I was looking for a way to automate the creation of VMs for testing various distributed...
View ArticleRun a Linux systemd service during shutdown
I recently needed to add a cleanup service that runs at shutdown to a hundred AWS servers. My requirements were: Run the script /usr/local/sbin/ec2-cleanup.sh when a VM shuts down (poweroff or...
View ArticleAI without GPUs: Accessing Sapphire Rapids AMX instructions on vSphere
Full disclosure: I used to work for a startup called Bitfusion, and that startup was bought by VMware, so I now work for VMware. At Bitfusion we developed a technology for accessing hardware...
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