Overview In the following article, we’ll go through the steps how to convert Virtualbox VMs to QEMU/KVM hypervisor, or in another words, how to convert VM files from VDI to QCOW2 extenstion. This process is useful especially when you need to migrate from virtualbox to KVM or just want to try out the KVM hypervisor without the need to create new machines from the start. What is VDI? VDI(Virtual desktop infrastructure) is an file extension of the HDD disc image file for an Virtual machines that are commonly used by hypervisor solutions such as Virtualbox....

Install Gnome on Debian 11 Overview In this article we will cover the process how to Install Gnome Debian 11. That’s one of the most wonderful features that you can do with Linux. The ability to install multiple different desktop environments and to fully customize it per your liking. Thing to consider before installing another Desktop Environment Installing multiple Desktop Environments is not without risks. It requires time and some in-depth GNU/Linux knowledge in order to make ti all working smooth and to troubleshoot with ease, if some issues do come up....

Setup Urbackup server on Ubuntu Overview The following post will showcase the steps how to setup Urbackup server on Ubuntu. By this we mean that we’ll be install Urbackup server on Ubuntu and also, we’ll show to add a client on the server and how to run a backup job. UrBackup is an Open Source client/server backup system, that through a combination of image and file backups features, differential backups and other tools can do various backup jobs while the system is running without interrupting current processes....

Install NFS server on Rocky linux 8[NFS share mount] Overview The post will showcase the steps how to install NFS server on Rocky linux. On another post, we covered the other method as well where we showed the process mounting the network shared drive on Linux, but with this method we used cifs-utils tools(LINK). The principle behind this process is basically the same - mount a network shared folder or drive from another machine and access it via local network....

How to setup Zabbix on Ubuntu 20.04 Overview Zabbix is an open source monitoring solution for diverse IT components, including networks and network devices, virtual machines, servers, and cloud services. Zabbix provides monitoring metrics for most of the components, such as CPU usage, network utilization, RAM and disk space consumption, temperatures, etc. Software can monitor operations on Linux, Mac OS, Solaris, HP-UX natively, but for Windows monitoring usage of agents is needed....

Overview On this post we are going to showcase the steps how to Install OpenVPN server on Rocky Linux 8. OpenVPN is one of the well-known and a great open-source VPN solution. The scenario of our process on how to install OpenVPN server is going to be performed as following: Deployed Rocky Linux 8 machine with firewall. We’ll be using an OpenVPN installation script from Github made by angristan(huge shutout and kudos to him for making such an amazing script)....

Overview The following article will demonstrate the steps on how to create a user in Ubuntu. Also, we’ll be demonstrating how to delete user in Ubuntu and all actions we’ll be executed in terminal. Knowing how to create a user in Ubuntu and how to delete a user is one of the basic skills a Linux user(admin) should know and still one of the most important skills as well to have(user management)....

Setup OpenVPN server on Ubuntu Overview On this post we are going to showcase the steps how to setup OpenVPN server on Ubuntu. OpenVPN is one of the well-known and a great open-source VPN solution. The scenario of our process on how to install OpenVPN server on Ubuntu is going to be performed as following: Deployed Ubuntu Linux machine with firewall(you can use UFW or IPTABLES. IPTABLES is used in this example)....

Install KDE Plasma on Pop OS 20.04 Overview The article is covering steps how you can install KDE Plasma on Pop OS 20.04. Pop OS by default comes with Gnome desktop environment, but it’s not “locked” to use only Gnome DE and like many other distros, you can install other desktop environments you like. So, if you’re fan of Pop!_OS distro and you prefer more KDE desktop over Gnome, you can install KDE Plasma on Pop OS just as that(or just want to try another DE on Pop OS to see will it work)....

Setup Wireguard on Ubuntu Overview On this post we are going to showcase the steps how to setup Wireguard on Ubuntu. Wireguard is one of the well-known and a great open-source VPN solution. The scenario for our process on how to install Wireguard on Ubuntu is going to be performed as following: Deployed Ubuntu Linux machine with firewall(you can use UFW or IPTABLES. IPTABLES is used in this example). We’ll be using a Wireguard installation script from Github made by angristan....

Overview The following post will demonstrate the steps how to create groups in Linux as well as how to delete groups in Linux and how to add user to the group and how to remove a user from the group. This is a continuation of our Linux user management post series. In one of our earlier posts, we covered the process how to create and delete users in Linux via terminal and how to add sudo privileges to the user(you can check out these procedures here - add sudo privileges, create a user)....

Overview This post will showcase the steps how to setup NFS server on Ubuntu. On another post, we covered the other method as well where we showed the process mounting the network shared drive on Linux, but with this method we used cifs-utils tools(LINK). The principle behind this process is basically the same - mount a network shared folder or drive from another machine and access it via local network....