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Setting up PHP 8.2 + Laravel 11 dev environment on Multipass
Install Multipass from https://multipass.run
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k8s-snap (Canonical Kubernetes) pour un déploiement simple et rapide d’un cluster k8s …
Multipass orchestrates virtual Ubuntu instances
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Packer Workflows with Jenkins
Multipass I love Multipass for quick Ubuntu instances spun up for testing or as a playground. Wish I would have known and used of it sooner.
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VMs on macOS using Apple's native Virtualization.Framework
If you just need Ubuntu then you can try "Multipass" from Canonical (https://multipass.run/). Works quite well on my M2 Air. I haven't tried using Linux GUI with it though as I need only terminal based VMs.
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Simulate an Ubuntu-like VM inside macOS
Multipass is pretty clutch for trivial VMs on MacOs for sure. I use it for a bunch of ssh jump boxes running vpns to different sites. The macOS build does not support custom images (lest not without [some truly insane hacks](https://github.com/canonical/multipass/issues/1260#issuecomm...) , which doesn’t really matter for what I use it for but it is kind of a bummer. If you need something with a little more grunt but don’t want to go full blown with writing your own QEMU tooling or fussing with something like UTM or Parallels, [quickemu](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu) is a really nice qemu wrapper with sane defaults that can expose a whole lot of power if you need it.
- Multipass orchestrates virtual Ubuntu instances
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VirtualBox 7.0.10 download links have disappeared
I would be cautious or even distrustful of using anything from Oracle. VirtualBox components come under three different licenses - GPLv2, personal use & evaluation license, and an enterprise license. Their VirtualBox license FAQ [1] gives them enough leeway to change future licenses at will. If an exploit is discovered in your old VirtualBox and they've changed the license, you're out of luck.
We've moved our development to KVM and Virtual Machine Manager on Linux [3] and UTM on Mac [4]. There are other options to run your VM, such as Multipass [5] or VirtualBuddy [6].
On a digressive topic - it was fun migrating our legacy application server stack from Oracle Java (old & poorly considered decision) to OpenJDK, thanks to their license [2].
[1] https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Licensing_FAQ
[2] https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/jdk-faqs.htm...
[3] https://ubuntu.com/blog/kvm-hyphervisor
[4] https://mac.getutm.app/
[5] https://multipass.run/
[6] https://github.com/insidegui/VirtualBuddy
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Lima: A nice way to run Linux VMs on Mac
How does it compare to https://multipass.run/?
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Hands-on Kubernetes and maybe go for a certification
If you have a reasonably beefy computer, you can always try setting up Multipass and set up 2-3 nodes for a k8s cluster, it's how I'm doing my own certification training. I do have a k3s Raspberry Pi cluster, but with Pi prices being what they are still it'd almost be cheaper to do a cloud setup. ☹️
WSL
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GoboLinux
It absolutely 100% can be true.
As an example: Windows Services for Linux 2 used a special init daemon to interact with the host OS.
That meant no systemd. That meant that the `systemctl` program wasn't there.
This baffled legions, armies, of wannabe sysadmins.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55579342/why-systemd-is-...
https://superuser.com/questions/1785697/systemd-in-wsl-on-wi...
https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/9477
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1132230/unable-to-run-any-sy...
People on the whole have no idea how this stuff works, and they just copy magic incantations from StackOverflow to get stuff to happen. If that doesn't work, then this OS is broken. The end.
For these guys, WSL was broken.
Result:
MS hired Lennart Poettering.
https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/07/lennart_poettering_re...
He "fixed" it. Systemd now works in WSL2. All those guides for noobs now work. Everyone is happy.
In a world where tools like Flatpak and Snap are proliferating and it's driving deep divisions between Linux distros, if you think the average person struggling with Linux is going to use `ldd` to work out where the dependencies for something live, I'm afraid you are a deep guru who lives on a different plane of existence.
We now have widely-used packaging systems which simply embed an apps entire dependency tree into a package to avoid people having to work out the difference between `apt` and `rpm`. Thousands of terabytes of disk are being burned to make this stuff go away.
Yes, this is too hard. Way too hard.
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Why Linux utilities tend to run poorly on Windows
Better source: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425...
- Weird graphical glitch/problem in Ubuntu WSLg (OpenGL)
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RamRamRamEveryoneSleepingOnDocker
One of the bugs where on the Docker side. As I have said, there have been several since release with a lot of impact period overlap. The latest and greatest is not resolved.
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Laravel dev in Windows - Laragon vs Docker?
It's the issue of abysmal I/O performance in communication between the mounted WSL2 virtual hard disk and Windows mounts inside the WSL2 distro.
- WSL freeze seems fixed in 2.0.12
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What's the right way to open files in the system's default program from Ubuntu 22.04 in WSL 2 please?
I found this github page and I was able to reproduce this from the answer
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Ask HN: Best Docker open source alternative?
* Docker engine and not Docker Desktop in a VM. WSL2 works well after some configuration: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/6655#issuecomment-11...
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Broadcom to Cut Almost 1,300 VMware Jobs in California After Takeover
Seems to more of a Defender issue than a WSL one, see https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/8995
After adding exclusions for the fsnotifier-wsl process and and both variants of the WSL distro path my disk performance was improved.
Adding the idea64.exe process also helped since I was trying to run IntelliJ against projects inside WSL.
- Bricked WSL 2 after 2.0.9 / Windows 10
What are some alternatives?
lima - Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers
wslg - Enabling the Windows Subsystem for Linux to include support for Wayland and X server related scenarios
colima - Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup
genie - A quick way into a systemd "bottle" for WSL
wsl-environments
Scoop - A command-line installer for Windows.
podman-compose - a script to run docker-compose.yml using podman
Single-GPU-Passthrough
docker-images - Official source of container configurations, images, and examples for Oracle products and projects
setup-msys2 - GitHub Action to setup MSYS2
UTM - Virtual machines for iOS and macOS
mkcert - A simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates with any names you'd like.