In this blog post I describe the journey from buying a Rock64 single board computer (basically a less mainstream but more powerful Raspberry Pi), booting, troubleshooting and porting Arch Linux ARM to it.
About PCI-passthrough’d graphics cards and monitors
Setting up a Windows VM to use a graphics card via PCI-passthrough can yield great performance benefits for the VM. However, one loses the flexibility of easily moving the VM’s video output from one monitor to another; in the past, one could just drag the VM’s VirtualBox window from one screen to another and maybe …
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OS switcher
My latest hack is for dual-booters: The OS switcher lets you select the operating system (OS) you wish to boot at the flick of a switch, anytime. Booting the OS of your choice no longer requires you to sit in front of your computer, wait for a boot selection screen to show up, and then press some buttons at just the right time.
Installing windows for both native and virtual machine use
My quest to setup a perfect VM to replace my native Windows installation continues… Can I install Windows on a dedicated HDD in such a way that I can run it natively as and as a VM? That would allow me to squeeze out the remaining percentages of performance if I absolutely have to.
Setting up a Windows VM with GPU passthrough
I’ve finally managed to setup a Windows VM with direct access to my graphics card and my network interface card (NIC)!
[historic] Building a desktop PC for 2014
In this blog post I’ll describe the process I went through while upgrading my desktop PC. Expect a comprehensive buildlog outlining everything from window-shopping to solving UEFI installation issues. Most of this was written around end of 2013/early 2014.
Moving GPT partitions to another SSD
I started off with one 240GB SSD having both my Windows and Linux partitions, and wanted to upgrade my PC to have 2 SSDs, one with Windows and one with Linux. I run Windows Server 2008r2, which is basically Windows 7 once you’ve set it up appropriately, and Arch Linux. Both are installed as UEFI …
An .asoundrc ALSA config for the PS3 Eye
It took quite some fiddling for me to get ALSA setup to record sound from my PS3 Eye USB camera and to play back sound using my onboard Intel PCH sound device. Here’s the result:
Raspberry Pi + 7 segment display = wireless device counter
This blog post will look at using the GPIO (General Purpose Input/Output) ports of the Raspberry Pi to drive a 7 segment display, which will display the number of wireless devices on a wireless network. I think this is a project where the Raspberry Pi can really shine – it would take more work and …
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