Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/26
This is tool funny, especially how he got it on the machine: [WayBack] foone on Twitter: I’m FINALLY ready to turn my old computer in to IT. They have to power on all turned in computers to make sure they’re functional before they recycle them, so they’re in for a small surprise. Windows 3.0 running on MS-DOS 6.22!…
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/26
Oh cool:
Formatting your messages –
WhatsApp allows you to format selected text inside your messages.
Italic
To italicize your message, place an underscore on both sides of the text, like so:
_text_Bold
To bold your message, place an asterisk on both sides of the text, like so:
*text*Strikethrough
To
strikethroughyour message, place a tilde on both sides of the text, like so:~text~Monospace
To
monospaceyour message, place three backticks on both sides of the text, like so:```text```Alternatively: On Android, you can tap and hold the text you’re typing > More …
Source: [WayBack] WhatsApp FAQ – Formatting your messages
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/26
This is why I try to avoid doing web-development: [WayBack] Location, location: location = location … and a 534 other ways to reload the page with JavaScript.
Via [WayBack] location = location … and a 534 other ways to reload the page with JavaScript – ThisIsWhyICode – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/26
Voor als ik het een keer nodig heb: [WayBack] Wat is het rekeningnummer van ICS – Mijn ICS
Betalen aan ICS via internetbankieren
Benodigde gegevens
Wilt u een betaling doen aan ICS via internetbankieren? Gebruik één van onderstaande rekeningnummers:
- ABN AMRO: NL75 ABNA 0844 9970 56
- ING: NL43 INGB 0005 6353 34
- Rabobank: NL88 RABO 0187 4987 92
Vermeld in de omschrijving altijd uw ICS-klantnummer. U vindt dit nummer bovenaan de pagina als u bent ingelogd op Mijn ICS.
Betaalt u via een buitenlandse bank?
Dan kan u ook om de volgende gegevens van ICS gevraagd worden:
BIC: ABNANL2A Adres: ICS BV
Wisselwerking 32
1112 XP Diemen
The Netherlands
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/26
When running Windows VMs on Proxmox and you want to make snapshot backups you really want to run the qemu-agent inside the Windows VMs.
First of all you really want snapshot mode backups as of all backup modes they have the least downtime. By default they have a small inconsistency risk, but on Windows that can be alleviated by running qemu-agent as described in [WayBack] Backup and Restore – Proxmox VE: Backup Modes
snapshot backup modeBackup modes for VMs:
- snapshot mode
- This mode provides the lowest operation downtime, at the cost of a small inconstancy risk. It works by performing a Proxmox VE live backup, in which data blocks are copied while the VM is running. If the guest agent is enabled (agent: 1) and running, it calls guest-fsfreeze-freeze and guest-fsfreeze-thaw to improve consistency.
A technical overview of the Proxmox VE live backup for QemuServer can be found online here (https://git.proxmox.com/?p=pve-qemu-kvm.git;a=blob;f=backup.txt -> https://git.proxmox.com/?p=pve-qemu-kvm.git;a=blob;f=vma_spec.txt;).
Proxmox VE live backup provides snapshot-like semantics on any storage type. It does not require that the underlying storage supports snapshots.
On Windows the trick is that qemu-agent can use VSS to get a frozen state of the filesystem as described in [WayBack] Qemu-guest-agent – Proxmox VE:
In Proxmox VE, the qemu-guest-agent is used for mainly two things:
- To properly shutdown the guest, instead of relying on ACPI commands or windows policies
- To freeze the guest file system when making a backup (on windows, use the volume shadow copy service VSS).
Start with the VM options
Don’t make the mistake to start at [WayBack] Qemu-guest-agent – Proxmox VE: Installation; guest; Windows as it will give you a hard time. Always use the full [WayBack] Qemu-guest-agent Installation steps beginning at the[WayBack] Host; these steps worked for me:
/var/lib/vz/template/iso on the Proxmox host so they show up as local:iso for mounting.
devmgmt.msc)
D:\vioserial\[OS-Version]\ where OS-Version is your Windows Version and ensure “Include subfolder” has a checkmark so it will find the Win32 or Win64 drivers depending on your processor architecture.
D:\vioserial\w7 
D:\guest-agent install either qemu-ga-x64.msi for Win64 or qemu-ga-x86.msi for Win32.Red Hat, Inc.: 
services.msc) and execute from any command promt the following statments to verify the check if these services are running: 
Note you can obtain the same information from the console by executing these commands.
sc queryex "QEMU-GA"sc queryex "QEMU Guest Agent VSS Provider"Before the reboot, they should show output like this:
C:\Windows\system32>sc queryex "QEMU-GA"
SERVICE_NAME: QEMU-GA
TYPE : 10 WIN32_OWN_PROCESS
STATE : 4 RUNNING
(STOPPABLE, NOT_PAUSABLE, ACCEPTS_SHUTDOWN)
WIN32_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
SERVICE_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
CHECKPOINT : 0x0
WAIT_HINT : 0x0
PID : 4444
FLAGS :
C:\Windows\system32>sc queryex "QEMU Guest Agent VSS Provider"
SERVICE_NAME: QEMU Guest Agent VSS Provider
TYPE : 10 WIN32_OWN_PROCESS
STATE : 1 STOPPED
WIN32_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
SERVICE_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
CHECKPOINT : 0x0
WAIT_HINT : 0x0
PID : 0
FLAGS :
After reboot it should have become this:
C:\Windows\system32>sc queryex "QEMU-GA"
SERVICE_NAME: QEMU-GA
TYPE : 10 WIN32_OWN_PROCESS
STATE : 4 RUNNING
(STOPPABLE, NOT_PAUSABLE, ACCEPTS_SHUTDOWN)
WIN32_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
SERVICE_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
CHECKPOINT : 0x0
WAIT_HINT : 0x0
PID : 1680
FLAGS :
C:\Windows\system32>sc queryex "QEMU Guest Agent VSS Provider"
SERVICE_NAME: QEMU Guest Agent VSS Provider
TYPE : 10 WIN32_OWN_PROCESS
STATE : 4 RUNNING
(STOPPABLE, PAUSABLE, IGNORES_SHUTDOWN)
WIN32_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
SERVICE_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
CHECKPOINT : 0x0
WAIT_HINT : 0x0
PID : 1624
FLAGS :
Verifying the qemu-agent is reachable from the Proxmox host:
shutdown -r -t 0)
# socat /var/run/qemu-server/112.qga -
{"execute":"guest-sync", "arguments":{"id":1234}}
It should get you this result:
{"return": 1234}
Note there’s all sorts of nice stuff you can do with socat /var/run/qemu-server so maybe I’ll put more about it in a future blog post.
–jeroen
Some more links with background information:
Easiest is to download the ISO image to /var/lib/vz/template/iso on the Proxmox host so they show up as local:iso for mounting.
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