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Guests are users of a system that do not have their own identity in that system and have less privileges than a normal user.

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KVM Guest installed from console. But how to get to the guest's console?

I'm trying to install a fully virtualized guest (Fedora 14 x86_64) on KVM (RHEL 6), using command-line only (both hypervisor and guest). It goes without errors, and without a tangible result . I'd like to know how to do a text-only installation. So,…
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How to grant temporary access to server?

I've hired a remote consultant to tune up my servers. Now, I am not 100% confident about giving him root password and allow him to do whatever he wants to do on the servers. Ideally, I want to see everything he is doing to my servers (in realtime)…
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How did I get this Windows share to prompt for login?

Or: "Is this a thing? And how would I check if it was?" In an environment without a Domain Controller, when accessing a share on a Windows Server 2008 R2 box, from a remote computer without a matching user account on the server, (and connecting by…
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Renting a dedicated, but getting a VPS. How to detect?

When renting a dedicated server, how can one be certain than he/she is not getting a VPS or some other virtual machine variant instead of a true dedicated hardware box? Which checks can be run (assuming it is a linux box) to detect such case?
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Windows Server Datacenter Edition - Unlimited Virtual Machines

Need some clarification on the following. Datacenter Edition description lists: Can be used as virtualization guest: Yes, unlimited virtual machines, plus one Hyper-V host per…
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ESXi 5 Guests will not boot

I have a problem with Guests not booting under VMWare ESXi 5.0 on my IBM x3550M3 server. Note: Investigation eventually determined that problem was with the VMware client on a Lenovo Edge laptop, the only Windows box available in a Linux IT…
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Changing XEN VM configuration

What is the correct way to update a XEN VM configuration? In this case I want a specific domain to stop using /dev/emcpowerg and use /dev/emcpowerh in stead. I have ensured that the two devices have identical geometry and have copied the contents…
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Installing Fedora 16 guest OS on VMware ESXi 5. What type OS should I choose?

Im trying to install Fedora 16(64bit) as guest OS on my VMware ESXi 5 host... But when configuring new vm, in tab Guest Operating System there is no Fedora 16. I can choose between RedHat 6, CentOS and Other Linux, Other Linux 2.6.x ... What…
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Determining the name of the VMware host of a VM guest - from the guest

Is it possible to determine the name of the VMware host (ESX or ESXi) that my guest resides in, from within the guest itself? I would expect this to be possible via VMware Tools, but am not sure where to look.
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Is there any point securing a "guest" wifi network with WPA?

We have a guest wifi network setup on a separate VLAN, using an open connection (e.g. NO wpa/wep). A (semi-technical) customer recently complained that he wasn't happy about his traffic not being encrypted, I gave him the usual advice that if…
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LibVirt (QEMU) Shutting down from inside guest

I am currently running LibVirt with Qemu on Debian Wheezy: Versions: libvirtd (libvirt) 1.2.4 qemu-x86_64 version 2.0.0 (Debian 2.0.0+dfsg-4~bpo70+1), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard It's all working perfectly, including ACPI: virsh…
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KVM: All network traffic to one guest (firewall)

I am currently using a VMWare ESXi 5.5 server for my virtualisation. The network setup is like this: PFSense firewall is the center of it all and connected to: LAN Network (physical NIC 1 assigned by VMWare) DMZ network (no physical NIC assigned by…
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Hyper-V limit IP address to guest

I have the following setup: Hyper-V host with 2 network cards (Windows 2012 core) One network card is for management only, with private IP address accessible locally. Called "Management". The other is configured with "Allow management operating…
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How to enable insecure guest logons on Windows Server 2016?

Since Windows Server 2016 Update version 1709, insecure guest logons have been automatically disabled. How should insecure guest logons be enabled again? In the linked article, Microsoft suggests to do this: If you want to enable insecure guest…
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Wifi router supporting bridge mode + isolated guest network

I am in a building where wired internet is provided in a number of rooms, giving you a local IP address when connected to. I now want to add WiFi routers across a number of rooms acting as a single logical network (same SSID). The best way to do…
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