Migrating to KVM

Background

A few years ago, the services I provide (web server, mail server and so on) used to run on the same machine that I used as my desktop. It was powerful, spacious but it was also rather hungry on power. So, after some deliberation, I bought myself a fit-PC2i which was quite a power-miser. It had a 1.6Ghz CPU and 1G of RAM and was plenty enough for day-to-day work and serving, and freed up the bigger machine for pure desktop usage. However, I started to notice that occasionally it would freeze for a few seconds. My suspicion is that this is being caused by the SSD which doesn’t support TRIM1. So, I am now looking into moving my server onto my housemate’s server as a KVM instance.

So, following on from setting up the domain for my new blog I now need to do some preparation before making the domain available to the public.

Welcome to my Blog. Mostly, I shall be writing up my experiences of day-to-day administration of a few linux machines on my home network. To start with, let’s look at how I went about setting up this blog.

Work-Log

Migrating to KVM

Migrating to KVM

Background

Bootstrapping the Blog - Part 2: Paving the Way

Bootstrapping the Blog - Part 1: The Domain