It has been 7 or 8 years since I touched it, but yes. I extended some intern-built VMware automation to ovirt so we could validate KVM images and reduce VMware costs for internal dev and because that was the platform the manager decided on. We initially only dedicated 6U or 8U to it.

In general, I’d say it worked just fine and the python sdk was approachable. It wouldn’t be my first choice knowing it’s Oracle Virtualization now, but that’s a moral stance instead of technical.

As for maintaining it long term, I can’t really say. I left that team to go play in the clouds with terraform and kubernetes. But I also haven’t heard anything negative from that team since (and I’m still friends with one of the system engineers who is responsible for it). And there was a much needed fundamental rewrite of the bits I original extended that continued with ovirt that went smoothly.

It sounds like you want to create a vm template image.

Some options:

Both virsh and virt-manager have tools for managing libvirt xml files that you can turn into a template to use for launching additional images.

Proxmox and ovirt both have template concepts and APIs you can interact with for automation.

If you’re looking to create a golden image or just automate configuration, virt-clone, ansible, puppet, packer, and even pxe boot are good options depending on the methods you prefer.

There are so many well-established ways to approach this problem domain. Just don’t get decision paralysis. There isn’t a best either.

Bold of you to assume people/companies test backups more than once.

Case in point: I once got instructed to “enable EBS snapshots” for customer deployments to meet a new backup requirement. Disaster recovery was a completely different feature we only kind of got to a couple years later and afaik, remains manual to this day.

As another commenter pointed out, the current issue is due to the docker-desktop package being maintained outside the normal channels (AUR) and not getting updated when one of its dependencies moves forward (qemu). CachyOS seems to be letting you install from AUR as part of your normal pacman process and it’s going to lead non-experts into situations like this. I separate my installs from AUR and system packages for this reason (among others).

Your choice is:

• just wait for the person who maintains the docker-desktop package to update it
• remove the docker-desktop package and update normally
• potentially break things by temporarily ignoring the docker-desktop package so you can update normally.

Honestly, I’d personally advocate for tossing docker entirely and migrating to podman which has its own podman-desktop GUI. Since it is maintained by red hat, you’ll always have the latest and greatest without weird issues.

Beyond that, I’d say uninstall this package and install docker without the desktop GUI according to the guide.

⚠️ NOTE: Docker Desktop is not supported, you will run into issues if you use it

That’s from the winboat GitHub page.

Not entirely sure what you’re trying to do though.

As an inveterate imbiber, even a fifth (750ml) of mild spirits (80pf/40%abv) in 15 minutes will get anyone in trouble.

He quit walking the line and dove head first over it.

Well, that explains why corporate is so intent on them. They’re creating the perfect little KPI-driven stooge.

Heck, now I’d like to see a study on KPIs (as a concept) as a reality distortion lens. It would seem like they have inadvertantly created a way to calculate a reality alignment index for a given KPI. Is it reasonable to conclude that using KPIs to measure performance is, in itself, unethical behavior?

To go a bit further: Is there a correlation between the number of KPIs and the likelihood of creating scenarios in which the only desirable outcome lies outside reality? That is, how many KPIs does it take to get sufficient competition between priorities that it effectively requires hallucinating a solution to achieve a sufficiently aligned result?

Hah, is fine. No I didn’t feel “cool.” I’m just the kind of weirdo that was obsessed with guns from a technical point of view as a kid. Think of me more as the kid just slightly on the spectrum who collected data on everything firearm related and then wrote mods for games like rogue spear that tried to adhere to the data. I didn’t shoot more than a .22 rifle or 16 and 12 gauge shotguns until my 20s. This was one of the factoids I still have floating around up there.

Now in my 40s, I still haven’t owned a gun personally, but have been to the range many times with friends (I buy more ammo than I shoot and drinks after). Heck, a few weeks ago I got to put a hundred rounds or so through a friend’s suppressed FN P90 (a very surreal experience), a very nice .223, and pistols in 4 calibers (.22 and 9mm with suppressors, .45, and .357).

.40 S&W and 10mm auto are both 10mm rounds!

I got you:

Good advice here.

The faster you drink, the drunker you get and the longer it takes to sober up. Your liver doesn’t hurry things along just because you were dumb. It’s a linear processing speed. And don’t take any meds that dunk on your liver either. No acetaminophen/paracetamol.

And when your liver is busy with alcohol, it isn’t doing glucose (fat metabolism things) management. You’re likely to have low blood sugar if you don’t eat after drinking.

For weed: maybe you’ll be unfortunate like me and have a vasovagal syncope response (fainting). Alcohol enhances the effect.

+1 I finally finished my bachelor’s at 31 so I could check a box on job applications. I wouldn’t have my current position without it, useless and inapplicable though it is.

Apologies, 6yr full service warranty, 12yr system warranty.

Apologies: 6yr full service warranty, 12yr system warranty.

This is the debate we had when redoing our kitchen. It hurt me to add $8k to the bill (the difference) just for the fridge, but it really is genuinely a different experience. At least it came with a 6 year manufacturer warranty too.

The drawers glide smoothly on real hinges with a soft close, the shelves are individually lit and glass, what plastic there is is thicker and smoother. Everything is easy to adjust or remove for cleaning. It even has a cartridge that removes ethylene gas and produce stays noticeably much fresher.

And as a bonus, I got to support a union manufacturer in the US (subzero).

Love it. Gives a new meaning to JBOD too: junk box of disks!

I was going to buy the Lego Star Trek enterprise, but it was sold out before I got there. Oh well, they saved me from myself with artificial supply restrictions.

Instead, I didn’t buy anything.

I think this is the right answer.

If the drive isn’t ext4 formatted, steam os won’t automatically mount.

Here’s a tool that seems to be able to do it for any drive: https://github.com/scawp/Steam-Deck.Mount-External-Drive

For sure.

I am excited to see more arm-based Linux devices for consumers. And the Snapdragon-based VR is exciting on that front.

It definitely won’t change anything for tomorrow or next year, but it does make me hopeful that better support is in the relatively near future.