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  1. PVE: Virtual Windows

    Create a Windows Image…​ Imagine you are running Windows 7 in a VM, with near-native Windows performance and the ability to easily switch between Windows and Linux. Sit back and relax, because we are planning to solve the first part of that wish! Table of Contents Create a…

    Blog, Open_Source, Technology, ProxMox

  2. PVE: Virtualization for Work and Play (Part 3)

    System Optimization…​ In the previous post we installed ProxMox Virtual Environment (PVE) and configured our ZFS ZPool storage system. Let’s tweak our system to improve performance. Table of Contents System Optimization…​ ZFS Tune-up Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) Passthrough Enable the VFIO Modules: Configure the…

    Blog, Open_Source, Technology, ProxMox

  3. PVE: Virtualization for Work and Play (Part 2)

    Getting Started…​ In the previous post, we learned about ProxMox Virtual Environment (PVE) and outlined the plan to build a powerful "bang for the buck" home server for games and other system-intensive pursuits. Before proceeding, you should feel a little comfortable with the Linux CLI (command line interface)…

    Blog, Open_Source, Technology, ProxMox

  4. PVE: Virtualization for Work and Play (Part 1)

    The Plan…​ Say we want a powerful "bang for the buck" home server for games and other system-intensive pursuits. We may want to run powerful analytics applications which would undoubtedly require Linux, but we may also want to run Windows applications. We may want near native 2D and…

    Blog, Open_Source, Technology, ProxMox

  5. Titanic: Learning Data Science with RStudio

    So we are aspiring data scientists and want to dip our toes into RStudio. How do we get started? We dive into the into the waters of the Kaggle Titanic "Competition", of course! Table of Contents Our Objective Kaggle Basics Titanic History Lesson Next Steps…​ Our Objective Use…

    Blog, Open_Source, Machine_Learning, Analytics, Data_Science