Virtualization: Father Michel lost his shell

I manage virtualization servers, and we have full control over the hypervisors. The administration of the virtual machines is handled by the clients. Ubuntu is the most commonly used operating system on our virtual machines. We deploy them using cloud images. The initial configuration is managed by cloud-init, which takes care of networking and SSH keys. It also automatically installs the qemu-guest-agent package. Running a virt-inspector on the image we use provides us with details about this package. ...

30 January 2025 · 5 min · 898 words · Fifi

IPv6: Why the first IP of my block decided to live its own life without me

I operate servers where we use BGP (EVPN - VXLAN). The architecture is similar to the one described by Vincent Bernat. The hypervisors act as routers for the VMs. When I designed the addressing plan, I used IPv4/IPv6 networks in /24 and /64 respectively with the gateway VIPs positioned on the first available IP: 10.0.0.1/24 and fdc0:3489:e0fd::/64. This topology has been working perfectly for 2 years. Recently, we had to deploy a dedicated VM for interconnecting two VRFs. We use iBGP sessions for route exchange between a VM and a hypervisor. ...

25 December 2024 · 4 min · 754 words · Fifi