So my company has an e-recycling day coming up and my wife has been bugging me about getting rid of old computers and the like. It turns out that after looking over everything I ended up with 6 towers left after removing hard drives and extracting parts for use later. I also added a whole bunch of misc. motherboards and other obsolete equipment to the stack. This will go out on Earth Day for e-recycling.
Which brings me to what I did over the weekend. I built up a server using one remaining tower. I populated it with a AMD FX 8320/motherboard/8 GB ram/1TB hard drive. My objective was to build up a Server which I could use to host a number of VMs which would run continuously in my network. I am also interested in setting up an Ethernet interface on the Server which would connect to a number of VLANs from my home network. The VLANs would be routed to one or more of the VMs. I hope to have an internal Hacking VLAN setup in this manner since I know that I can get vulnerable VMs from different sites on the internet.
To start this off, I was able to setup an Ubuntu 15.10 Server using my portable USB DVD drive from my Mac Mini. I changed out the power supply and added a SATA based DVD drive and a SATA based removable hard drive. I then installed KVM and attempted my first install of a VM from an ISO file. That took a very long time. So, I now know that if I can get the VM already made I should do so.
More info later.
This is a blog mostly about techie things, what I am doing to my apartment network on the cheap, IOT, 3D Printing, Raspberry Pis, Arduinos, ESP32, ESP8266, Home Automation, Personal Weather Stations, Things That Go Bump in the Night, and some side issues that need discussing. Remember, sometimes the journey to an end is as much fun as the goal achieved!
