Re: Debian, Qemu, KVM and Raspberry Pi
On 08/11/16 18:00, Alan Corey wrote:
Ah. I'd get a Dell laptop a few years old, put in a fresh hard drive,
and run OpenBSD instead of Linux. Much simpler and more reliable.
NBG when you want a big 4K screen.
I've been using it since about 2002, including on the only firewall
machines I've built. I prefer the default FVWM to KDE for speed
reasons but I've had no problems running KDE programs (Konqueror for
example) under it. Gnome stuff works too, they should install the
needed libraries. As far as I know, using a KDE or Gnome window
manager works, they're just unneeded bloat.
We prefer KDE, and I couldn't graft it reliably onto Raspbian etc.
The black on black sounds like a colormap problem. Or a framebuffer
problem where it's using some odd color depth instead of 24, I see a
problem like that with some HDMI modes and Raspbian on my Pis. But
No doubt. But what it boils down to is that it's some sort of
packaging/dependency problem, and life's too short to try to fix all the
World's problems (if you're in the USA, please believe me that I feel
your pain today).
I've mostly had no X at all on my firewall machines. I used to run
full-size i386 machines retired from being Windows machines. One
Goes without saying. However I'd add here that usb_modeswitch is broken
on things like Raspbian Lite or a cut-down Debian, it requires
modem_manager as a prerequisite and /that/ one might be a Debian
packaging/dependency problem.
bottleneck may be that you need _two_ fast network interfaces plus a
third one for control. A laptop with a built-in interface plus a
Cardbus card would maybe work for the fast ones. Use the built-in
(fastest) for the external network if you're going to be filtering
packets.
Or alternatively use a USB-tethered 4G 'phone for the Internet-facing
interface, and VLANs to a suitable switch for as many local ones as you
need. Then use xl2tpd to connect to an ISP and get him to set BGP to
tunnel your public addresses over it- that can get you both IP4 and IP6
fixed addresses even if the 'phone network NATs traffic to Hell.
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
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