[06:48] <brobostigon> morning boys and girls.
[07:33] <SuperMatt> morning
[08:51] <czajkowski> aloha
[10:59] <luna_> anyone in London that wants free tickets to an IT Security Expo in June?
[11:01] <SuperMatt> I am in London, but I don't want said tickets
[11:01] <zmoylan-pi> wouldn't a real geek sneak in? :-P
[11:02] <SuperMatt> but it's going to be SUPER SECURE, surely?
[11:03] <zmoylan-pi> wouldn't be worth sneaking in otherwise... :-P
[11:43] <czajkowski> aloha
[11:44] <czajkowski> anyone going to AWS summit London next week ?
[11:45] <SuperMatt> I'd be very surprised if my boss didn't ask someone in the team to go
[11:48] <czajkowski> .c
[11:48] <czajkowski> SuperMatt: would need to register soon then
[11:53] <czajkowski> bah hipchat doesn't work on 18.04 :/
[11:53] <czajkowski> *grumble*
[11:53] <daftykins> what kind of doesn't work?
[11:54] <czajkowski> Package hipchat4 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
[11:54] <czajkowski> This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
[11:54] <czajkowski> is only available from another source
[11:54] <czajkowski> E: Package 'hipchat4' has no installation candidate
[11:55] <SuperMatt> czajkowski: If I was going to something AWS related, we'd be showing off, rather than be sold to
[11:55] <czajkowski> SuperMatt: fair, I kinda have to be there
[11:55] <czajkowski> but may catch some sessions
[11:56] <czajkowski> was just going to suggest if others were going, to meet up for a drink, face to face
[11:56] <SuperMatt> well I have not been told anything thus far, but we might get invited along
[12:12] <daftykins> !info hipchat bionic
[12:12] <daftykins> (:
[12:18] <czajkowski> I always see that smiley face as the chessire cat from alice in wonderland
[12:18] <czajkowski> and never know if it's a :) or a :(
[12:23] <SuperMatt> there's no hipchat snap either
[12:23] <SuperMatt> I think it's mostly on its way out
[12:25] <czajkowski> you're probably right, can use webchat for the time being
[12:25] <czajkowski> I suspect we'll all end up on slack :/
[12:26] <SuperMatt> I'm on slack now for work
[12:26] <SuperMatt> That happened a couple of weeks ago
[14:26] <daftykins> way too many chat progs :)
[14:28] <zmoylan-pi> don't worry google will sort that out :-)
[14:37] <Seeker`> s/sort it out/make it worse
[14:42] <Azelphur> 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] <Azelphur> and water coming in the front door too
[14:50] <SuperMatt> Have you tried putting your house through the tumble dryer?
[18:00] <daftykins> 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] <diddledan> daftykins: does your server have VT-d?
[18:25] <diddledan> otherwise known as IOMMU
[18:26] <daftykins> 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] <diddledan> I'm not sure the freebie ESXi lets you use VT-d - I've not tried
[18:28] <diddledan> ooh, 6.7.0 is out
[18:28] <daftykins> 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] <daftykins> 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] <daftykins> 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] <daftykins> diddledan: wow i just got the driver installed for the 3ware and now see my RAID volume inside the guest OS :D
[18:49] <diddledan> #o/
[18:49] <diddledan> \o/
[18:50] <daftykins> 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] <daftykins> my only concern is i don't have a clue how you update ESXi free...
[18:51] <diddledan> this site keeps track of the updates and provides shell commands to update manually: https://esxi-patches.v-front.de/
[18:52] <daftykins> 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] <daftykins> 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] <diddledan> I haven't done any
[18:55] <daftykins> :)
[18:55] <daftykins> i've prepared accordingly but reinstalling the old host as a guest would be a lot of work
[18:56] <daftykins> 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] <daftykins> also seriously de-dusted the case since it suffered from my building works last year :(
[18:57] <diddledan> is that a tall tower or is the window sill giving me optical hallucinations
[18:57] <diddledan> ?
[18:57] <daftykins> coolermaster stacker, hooooooj!
[18:59] <diddledan> don't confuse that toothbrush with the one in your bathroom
[18:59] <daftykins> :D
[19:00] <diddledan> what's this sata box? https://dafty.rocks/nextcloud/index.php/s/giWeZ9DfLpYzgEz#//IMG_20180430_175341.jpg
[19:00] <daftykins> just a SATA backplane
[19:00] <diddledan> aah
[19:00] <diddledan> looks like it's got redundant uplinks?
[19:00] <daftykins> i have a 6 disk array though so one has to ride up top separated xD
[19:00] <daftykins> yeah for SAS i think
[19:00] <diddledan> gotcha
[19:00] <diddledan> I want one of those!
[19:01] <diddledan> gimme!
[19:01] <daftykins> 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] <diddledan> lol
[19:01] <daftykins> they're pretty dear :( £100
[19:01] <diddledan> ouch
[19:01] <daftykins> i'd love another but yeah, ow
[19:01] <daftykins> the new noctua fans are ace as well, super quiet PC now
[19:02] <daftykins> but then it's been in the same config for over 10 years so the others were likely just wearing out
[19:26] <daftykins> 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] <diddledan> dang
[19:27] <daftykins> if IOMMU *did* work with it in the primary slot, it might have a chance at avoiding this
[22:11] <daftykins> 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] <diddledan> :-(
[22:11] <diddledan> sadface
[22:12] <daftykins> 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] <daftykins> the controller just completely reinitialised over and over when trying to run crystaldiskmark against the array
[22:12] <daftykins> after getting a rather ace 450MB/sec read rate ;D
[22:14] <diddledan> reinitialising suggests that the vm and the host might be fighting for contorl
[22:27] <daftykins> 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] <daftykins> 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] <diddledan> oops
[22:36] <daftykins> s'ok, only a testing one with no value
[22:37] <diddledan> don't you love governments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3WkMeObqRY
[22:42] <daftykins> 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] <daftykins> 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] <daftykins> +y
[22:44] <daftykins> (oh i should add i meant manufacturer restore discs, so e.g. Dell, Lenovo, HP...)
[22:45] <diddledan> yeah, stupid
[22:45] <daftykins> Louis has a 2 hour interview on youtube but i haven't found the time yet xD
[22:46] <diddledan> I love this one: https://www.youtube.com/embed/fViHxVwA6hk?start=166&end=185
[22:48] <daftykins> phew.
[23:47] <daftykins> 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] <daftykins> meh this probably isn't worth the risk of instability
[23:54] <zmoylan-pi> windows... stable... *bzzzzzzz* words not usually associated with each other! :-P
[23:56] <daftykins> i was kind of afraid to replace that server of mine, it's been rock solid :)
[23:57] <zmoylan-pi> yeah, lets take something that's worked ok for ever and replace it with new shiny kit...
[23:58] <daftykins> not wise to stay on core 2 kit due to spectre
[23:58] <daftykins> plus i've doubled my cores, dropped the noise and hugely dropped power consumption
[23:58] <zmoylan-pi> just disconnect it from all networks :-)
[23:58] <daftykins> that would defeat its' purpose
[23:59] <zmoylan-pi> lots of floppy swapping....