https://virtualistic.nl/Welcome to my tiny outpost on the internet where I occasionally write down some thoughts. 2025-01-11T16:23:28+01:00 virtualistic https://virtualistic.nl/ Jekyll © 2025 virtualistic /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2024-05-20T12:15:34+02:00 2025-01-11T16:10:12+01:00 https://virtualistic.nl/posts/how-to-upgrade-opnsense/ virtualistic

A quick note on some best practices on how to upgrade OpnSense. OpnSense Upgrade procedure Yes, I moved to OpnSense. I needed a firewall with an up-to-date IGMP proxy package and PFSense’s current implementation has an annoying bug. Also the general direction that NetGate seems to be going has given me an extra motivation to bite the bullet and rebuild my firewall on OpnSense. Recipe for ...

2024-05-20T10:15:34+02:00 2024-05-20T10:56:41+02:00 https://virtualistic.nl/posts/best-windows-profile-migration-tool/ virtualistic

A reminder for myself what tool I used to migrate my windows settings from my old pc to a newer one. The Tool The tool is called Transwiz. Transwiz brings over user profiles, no support for Azure accounts nor data or applications which is fine for me. Recipe: Download the latest version from here On your old and new computer, create a temporary local admin account and login to that ac...

2023-07-22T08:47:34+02:00 2023-08-01T16:46:34+02:00 https://virtualistic.nl/posts/how-to-clean-up-docker-container-log-files-quick-fix/ virtualistic

So you think you’ve done everything done correctly when it comes to container logging. Created a nice daemon.json in the /etc/docker directory that should rotate your logs Notice the word “should” because apparently this only works for newly created containers and those settings won’t be picked up by containers already present on your system. So now you’re getting phonecalls, alerts of filesyst...

2023-07-15T08:47:34+02:00 2023-07-15T20:43:53+02:00 https://virtualistic.nl/posts/can-you-skip-bios-versions-when-upgrading-pcengines-apu/ virtualistic

A quick note to people who are wondering if you can skip versions when upgrading the bios of (in my case) a PC Engines APU2 The Answer YES YOU CAN! After googling a bit I could not find a definitive answer to this question. The APU2 was running version 4.12.0.4 and browsing the APU website, I noticed that the latest recommended version was 4.17.x So after taking a few deep breaths, I decide...

2023-04-10T16:47:34+02:00 2023-04-14T14:40:43+02:00 https://virtualistic.nl/posts/how-to-reinstall-single-esxi-host-running-vcenter/ virtualistic

Some quick notes on how I reinstalled my homeserver from 6.7 to 7 without losing any VM configuration The Challenge I was still running ESXi 6.7 from a usb-stick and I knew that going forward VMWare is no longer going to support this type of setup. So how am I going to reinstall the host from scratch that also hosts my vCenter without losing all my VM configurations ? Recipe: Shutdown al...