Well I've managed to hook 3 hosts together via ZeroTier, what a great product/service, I'll be looking into that a bit further.
I nuked my W10 laptop as that was an upgrade from W8.1 to 10 and it was being held together by wire and sticky tape. I've installed Fedora WS on it.
I've just been racing into this and most likely not reading as much as I should, but so far so good.
So i've installed a 2016 server VM on the Fedora host, all went well except I can't use the mouse or kbd in the VM. In a Windows world I'd be fine, but with this being an OS I'm not familiar with, this may take a little hunting to work out.

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@siringo said in Windows VMs on Linux VPS. Possible?:

Well I've managed to get my laptop & one of my 2016 VPSs to both have ZeroTier assigned IPs, but they can't ping each other yet, not sure why?? I'll look into it later tonight/tomorrow.

Is there a ZT area within ML I could post ZL related questions to?

No, ZT is not a sponsor. Just post in the usual area.

Are you sure that pings are not blocked?

Ar yes, they are. I'll look at that tonight. Time to head home.
Thanks Scott, if ZT can do what I'm hoping it can, i'm going to be very excited.

Well I've managed to get my laptop & one of my 2016 VPSs to both have ZeroTier assigned IPs, but they can't ping each other yet, not sure why?? I'll look into it later tonight/tomorrow.

Is there a ZT area within ML I could post ZL related questions to?

@siringo said in Windows VMs on Linux VPS. Possible?:

@scottalanmiller said in Windows VMs on Linux VPS. Possible?:

@siringo said in Windows VMs on Linux VPS. Possible?:

@scottalanmiller said in Windows VMs on Linux VPS. Possible?:

@siringo consider skipping port forwarding for a lab with something like ZeroTier. Depends on your goals. What are you trying to do what would make you want to port forward?

Trying to get access to the VMs on the host machine based at my house from the Interweb. So one of my current VPS windows servers can talk to one of the windows VMs on my home based host.

ZeroTier, then. If you want to act like it is a LAN, that's your best bet.

Thanks Scott, I'll check it out & see what I can work out.

This ZeroTier is awesome, I've managed to create a network and put 2 nodes on it. Just trying to work out how to communicate from 1 to the other. This is going to be great fun.

@scottalanmiller said in Windows VMs on Linux VPS. Possible?:

@siringo said in Windows VMs on Linux VPS. Possible?:

@scottalanmiller said in Windows VMs on Linux VPS. Possible?:

@siringo consider skipping port forwarding for a lab with something like ZeroTier. Depends on your goals. What are you trying to do what would make you want to port forward?

Trying to get access to the VMs on the host machine based at my house from the Interweb. So one of my current VPS windows servers can talk to one of the windows VMs on my home based host.

ZeroTier, then. If you want to act like it is a LAN, that's your best bet.

Thanks Scott, I'll check it out & see what I can work out.

@scottalanmiller said in Windows VMs on Linux VPS. Possible?:

@siringo consider skipping port forwarding for a lab with something like ZeroTier. Depends on your goals. What are you trying to do what would make you want to port forward?

Trying to get access to the VMs on the host machine based at my house from the Interweb. So one of my current VPS windows servers can talk to one of the windows VMs on my home based host.

@scottalanmiller Been to both of those places. Think I preferred Cow Town.
Went there in late March 2000.
Also went down to San Antonio.

Sitting & waiting, coughing and spluttering. Damn pre winter illnesses.

I'd rather be free of this bloody bug I've got and rolling around Salalah Oman.

Crazy weekend.
Updated all the firmwares on the T610, installed Fedora, no problem. Need a GUI, so got that installed, no problem.
Post GUI install mouse decided it didn't want to work, move mouse wait .. wait .. wait, cursor moves. Unusable.
Replace mouse, no change. Cold boot no change. Rage building.
Dig up old 16GB 8 core i7 laptop I forgot about that runs W10.
Me thinks I'll use that instead & use Hyper-V. It's running 1511.
Update, update, update, update.
Then I find out my crappy modem just will not port forward.
Dig out old Billion modem, stuff around with that.
Arrgh! Can't find DSL log in password.
This story will continue ...

Friday ended well. I located 3 Dell T610s I can lay my hands on. All have at least 24GB and at least 600GB SAS storage so I'm covered for hardware.

@scottalanmiller Hey great thanks, Scott, I'll go and check that out this weeekend.

Eeeek, that's starting to look too expensive.

I've got hardware lying around all over the place at work, I'm sure I could purloin some for a Linux box at home and go that route.

I've not had much to do with Linux. What should I look for for the server & virtualisation program?

Yep all good points, thanks.
What about a dedicated server, would I be able to do it one of them?

So I'm setting up a test / learn lab in .... 'the cloud' ... setting up Windows servers to do this n that and talk this n that.

I've been using Windows VPSs which become a bit dear because of the licensing.

I woke up this morning wondering "is it possible to get a cloud based Linux server, load a virtualization program onto that, & then run Windows Servers on that in evaluation mode?"

Then I could run up several Windows servers and hopefully save a bit of money, plus I'd pick up some Linux knowledge as well.

Anyone know if that is possible?

Thanks for any help.

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monday morning, cold & wet and I need a holiday.

setting up a toshiba copier to email scanned docs.

@dbeato said in Will I lose Connection if I ...:

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@i3 said in Will I lose Connection if I ...:

Depends on the type of VPN and if you are tunneling all traffic or not. Do you have more info?

I'm playing around with this n that trying to gain some knowledge, it's just a lab environment.

What I was thinking of doing was running up an Azure Windows VM, setting up a VPN connection to that from my 2016 VPS and seeing if I can add the Azure VM as a second DC to the domain I have on my VPS.

I've read this can be done, but I don't know if once the VPN connection is in place whether I will be able to RDP back into my 2016 VPS?

you might able to do so if the VPN doesn't take the route of your other network. Worst case scenario you just disconnect the user from the VPN and you are right back in it.

Thanks for advice. I guess as this is a knowledge building exercise, best way to find out is to just do it and see.

Fleet Foxes.

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