Backing up KVM disk images
In a previous article we resized KVM disk images with Linux and Windows guests. In this article we backup the disk images.
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Resizing KVM disk images
In this article I'll show how to grow and shrink KVM disk images with Linux and Windows guests.
Updates
| 2020-06-06 | Add how to remove Windows recovery partition. |
| 2018-09-08 | Add note about progress display in dd. |
KVM audio with ALSA loopback
Getting audio to work with KVM might be a bit tricky, especially when KVM expects to have exclusive access to your audio hardware. This is a problem if one would like to keep on using the host system audio while a guest is running. In this article we solve the problem using ALSA loopback devices.
Introducing GainCMS
This website and blog is made with GainCMS, a flat file CMS I wrote. This article denotes the birth of my new website and introduces the features of GainCMS.
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