Installing VirtualBox on Ubuntu 18 (same as for modern Fedora Core) with SecureBoot will result in the following error when running the command /sbin/vboxsetup The error message would be something like this: There were problems setting up VirtualBox. To re-start the set-up process, run /sbin/vboxconfig as root. If your system is using EFI Secure Boot…
Just to remember, there is an explanation here, from which the following directive can be taken: (cpio -id; zcat | cpio -id) < /path/to/initrd.img
*** EDIT *** : An updated version of this post can be found here: https://run.tournament.org.il/ubuntu-20-04-and-tpm2-encrypted-system-disk/ When you encrypt your entire disk, you are required to enter your passphrase every time you boot your computer. The TPM device has a purpose – keeping your secrets secure (available only to your running system), and combined with SecureBoot,…
I have described in this post how to setup RHCS (Redhat Cluster Suite) for ZFS services, however – this is rather outdated, and would work with RHEL/Centos version 6, but not version 7. RHEL/Centos 7 use Pacemaker as a cluster infrastructure, and it behaves, and configures, entirely differently. This is something I’ve done several times,…
I would like to start with a declaration – I would prefer not to use ACFS for a stand-alone system. It binds the “normal” order of startup and mounts to the cluster. Not only that – but while until version 12.1, RAC stand alone had a built-in service for ACFS, this is no longer the…
Let me first say, that it does work for Linux guest. It doesn’t work on Windows guest because there is a know bug (/issue) with the default hardware layout – made of i440FX BIOS. VirtManager would not allow us to replace the settings, so we need to create the VM ourselves using XML. You can…
