[06:48] morning boys and girls. [07:33] morning === layke is now known as Guest57029 [08:51] aloha [10:59] anyone in London that wants free tickets to an IT Security Expo in June? [11:01] I am in London, but I don't want said tickets [11:01] wouldn't a real geek sneak in? :-P [11:02] but it's going to be SUPER SECURE, surely? [11:03] wouldn't be worth sneaking in otherwise... :-P [11:43] aloha [11:44] anyone going to AWS summit London next week ? [11:45] I'd be very surprised if my boss didn't ask someone in the team to go [11:48] .c [11:48] SuperMatt: would need to register soon then [11:53] bah hipchat doesn't work on 18.04 :/ [11:53] *grumble* [11:53] what kind of doesn't work? [11:54] Package hipchat4 is not available, but is referred to by another package. [11:54] This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or [11:54] is only available from another source [11:54] E: Package 'hipchat4' has no installation candidate [11:55] czajkowski: If I was going to something AWS related, we'd be showing off, rather than be sold to [11:55] SuperMatt: fair, I kinda have to be there [11:55] but may catch some sessions [11:56] was just going to suggest if others were going, to meet up for a drink, face to face [11:56] well I have not been told anything thus far, but we might get invited along [12:12] !info hipchat bionic [12:12] Package hipchat does not exist in bionic [12:12] (: [12:18] I always see that smiley face as the chessire cat from alice in wonderland [12:18] and never know if it's a :) or a :( [12:23] there's no hipchat snap either [12:23] I think it's mostly on its way out [12:25] you're probably right, can use webchat for the time being [12:25] I suspect we'll all end up on slack :/ [12:26] I'm on slack now for work [12:26] That happened a couple of weeks ago [14:26] way too many chat progs :) [14:28] don't worry google will sort that out :-) [14:37] s/sort it out/make it worse [14:42] Upside: 3d printed a part that causes my window to vacuum seal, Downside: water is coming in from another window now. This storm is nuts on Margate seafront xD [14:42] and water coming in the front door too [14:50] Have you tried putting your house through the tumble dryer? [18:00] hrmm anyone experienced on the vmware ESXi front? i'm attempting PCI passthrough of my 3ware RAID controller to a guest VM but just got "Failed to register the device pciPassthru0 for 3:0.0 due to unavailable hardware or software support." [18:25] daftykins: does your server have VT-d? [18:25] otherwise known as IOMMU [18:26] it does, however there was no BIOS parameter for it - so i just removed it from the VM's settings and it has now powered on :O [18:27] I'm not sure the freebie ESXi lets you use VT-d - I've not tried [18:28] ooh, 6.7.0 is out [18:28] ja i'm using 6.7.0-8169922 - turned out i didn't have enough personal details shared to be allowed a key all these past years xD [18:29] diddledan: might be a case of Ms. Configuration - 2018-04-30T19:23:41.689Z cpu0:2100697)WARNING: PCIPassthru: 5292: Couldn't setup PCI passthru IOMMU domain because the IOMMU can't reach the entire VM's memory range (lastIopn = 0x7ffffff, lastPPN = 0x7fffffff) [18:29] * diddledan goes googley eyed [18:32] i wonder if it's relevant that i have it in the secondary slot rather than the primary, so it might be PCH attached rather than CPU attached [18:49] diddledan: wow i just got the driver installed for the 3ware and now see my RAID volume inside the guest OS :D [18:49] #o/ [18:49] \o/ [18:50] now i just need to run those commands to pass through my directly attached disks and my evil plan to decouple my Linux VM from being atop Windows has succeeded [18:50] my only concern is i don't have a clue how you update ESXi free... [18:51] this site keeps track of the updates and provides shell commands to update manually: https://esxi-patches.v-front.de/ [18:52] ooh very handy, thanks - i currently have ESXi installed on a testing SSD inside the machine but i think that might be a waste [18:53] have you ever done much physical install conversion? kinda tempted to image up my old Windows install (on another SSD) as a backup, then mount it directly under a VM and see if i can make it boot [18:55] I haven't done any [18:55] :) [18:55] i've prepared accordingly but reinstalling the old host as a guest would be a lot of work [18:56] take a gander at what i've done today if you're interested :) dumped the old core 2 duo kit and moved to one of my ebay specials (haswell) https://dafty.rocks/nextcloud/index.php/s/giWeZ9DfLpYzgEz [18:56] also seriously de-dusted the case since it suffered from my building works last year :( [18:57] is that a tall tower or is the window sill giving me optical hallucinations [18:57] ? [18:57] coolermaster stacker, hooooooj! [18:59] don't confuse that toothbrush with the one in your bathroom [18:59] :D [19:00] what's this sata box? https://dafty.rocks/nextcloud/index.php/s/giWeZ9DfLpYzgEz#//IMG_20180430_175341.jpg [19:00] just a SATA backplane [19:00] aah [19:00] looks like it's got redundant uplinks? [19:00] i have a 6 disk array though so one has to ride up top separated xD [19:00] yeah for SAS i think [19:00] gotcha [19:00] I want one of those! [19:01] gimme! [19:01] best part is when you first buy it and connect all your cables to the wrong set - and wonder why you see no disks! [19:01] lol [19:01] they're pretty dear :( £100 [19:01] ouch [19:01] i'd love another but yeah, ow [19:01] the new noctua fans are ace as well, super quiet PC now [19:02] but then it's been in the same config for over 10 years so the others were likely just wearing out [19:26] hmm ah well spoke too soon, looks like my RAID card is dropping a few bricks when made to do some heavy IO [19:26] dang [19:27] if IOMMU *did* work with it in the primary slot, it might have a chance at avoiding this [22:11] diddledan: welp i changed slot, no change, started to wonder if a host driver is needed for IOMMU use, but i think i have to just give up and accept my controller is too old to be supported [22:11] :-( [22:11] sadface [22:12] i can keep trying to use passthrough without IOMMU, as it might be a driver version mismatch... buuuut i think it won't go anywhere [22:12] the controller just completely reinitialised over and over when trying to run crystaldiskmark against the array [22:12] after getting a rather ace 450MB/sec read rate ;D [22:14] reinitialising suggests that the vm and the host might be fighting for contorl [22:27] well the host has the passthrough driver module loaded for the device and is passing it through to the VM fine with BIOS boot and no IOMMU etc [22:35] diddledan: think i found i was on an old driver in the Windows guest, buuuuut i may've broken the VM installing it 8D [22:36] oops [22:36] s'ok, only a testing one with no value [22:37] don't you love governments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3WkMeObqRY [22:42] have you caught the one about the 'ewaste' PC guy who was shipping Windows restore discs for 25c/copy and has been sent down for 18 months (or more, i forget) for doing so? [22:43] MS managed to convince the court, for similar reasons as in that vid, that he was conducting acts of piracy and distributing potentiall unsafe software [22:44] +y [22:44] (oh i should add i meant manufacturer restore discs, so e.g. Dell, Lenovo, HP...) [22:45] yeah, stupid [22:45] Louis has a 2 hour interview on youtube but i haven't found the time yet xD [22:46] I love this one: https://www.youtube.com/embed/fViHxVwA6hk?start=166&end=185 [22:48] phew. [23:47] well well, it doesn't fall over this time when the Windows VM isn't up to date - just has the controller driver on [23:47] meh this probably isn't worth the risk of instability [23:54] windows... stable... *bzzzzzzz* words not usually associated with each other! :-P [23:56] i was kind of afraid to replace that server of mine, it's been rock solid :) [23:57] yeah, lets take something that's worked ok for ever and replace it with new shiny kit... [23:58] not wise to stay on core 2 kit due to spectre [23:58] plus i've doubled my cores, dropped the noise and hugely dropped power consumption [23:58] just disconnect it from all networks :-) [23:58] that would defeat its' purpose [23:59] lots of floppy swapping....