Virtualbox 6.0.10 and secure boot

2019-08-30 Thread James Crawford
I Ran into this with a Windows 2016 Guest running on Cent OS 7 qemu/KVM. you need to install the signed drivers to the VMs. For windows VMs check https://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers/Download_Drivers James C. --- PLUG-discuss mailin

Re: Ansible laptop management

2019-08-30 Thread Aaron Jones
I manage like 10 thinkpads using ansible. They all run Manjaro. Why? > On Aug 30, 2019, at 12:18 PM, Steven - wrote: > > Anyone here using some form of configuration management (Ansible, Chef, > Saltstack, etc) for their personal computers? I recently did a clean OS > install on my carry-aroun

Re: OT: Non-Geek wants honest Registrar and Host service

2019-08-30 Thread Bob Elzer
Google domains is $12 a year. No extra fees. You can even hide your info for Free. On Fri, Aug 30, 2019, 12:51 PM Andrew McRobb wrote: > Sadly a lot of those "button-pressing" hosting services are going to cost > a bit more money vs firing up a instance on AWS or Droplet. Plus if all > your f

Re: OT: Non-Geek wants honest Registrar and Host service

2019-08-30 Thread Andrew McRobb
Sadly a lot of those "button-pressing" hosting services are going to cost a bit more money vs firing up a instance on AWS or Droplet. Plus if all your friend needs is Wordpress and email. What's wrong with firing up an EC2 instance for like 10/20 bucks a month and Namecheap for the DNS? Heck you ca

OT: Non-Geek wants honest Registrar and Host service

2019-08-30 Thread Victor Odhner
A friend who is totally non-technical wants to move their WordPress from the current registry and hosting service, and is looking for is good providers of registry and hosting, with the most honest reputations within a reasonable cost. A few years ago I worked with NameCheap, and have heard fair

Ansible laptop management

2019-08-30 Thread Steven -
Anyone here using some form of configuration management (Ansible, Chef, Saltstack, etc) for their personal computers? I recently did a clean OS install on my carry-around laptop and I decided to use that as an excuse to start using ansible (so far only to tell apt to install vim and tmux if they

Minor monitor gripe(rant)

2019-08-30 Thread Steven -
Back when I was in high school in the late 80s/early 90s we had a few computers with a grey-scale monitor that could be rotated between landscape and portrait orientation. Do you know what happened when we'd do that? You'd hear the clack of a mechanical orientation sensor, the screen would momen

Virtualbox 6.0.10 and secure boot

2019-08-30 Thread Steve B
My primary drive failed the other night. After procuring a new drive and restoring everything from backup I ran into a new problem. Since I had to reinstall I choose to enable secure boot. That choice appears to have created a problem with Virtualbox as it will not run my VMs saying I need to have