Re: [Dorset] Intel RST?

2021-01-05 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Tim, > The laptop uses Intel Rapid Storage Technology, This seems to be a new name for Intel Matrix RAID which is a ‘fake’ RAID in Linux terms. Intel added support to Linux: https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/white-papers/rst-linux-paper.pdf > Is there a way to stic

Re: [Dorset] Intel RST?

2021-01-05 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
On 05/01/2021 14:54, Tim Waugh wrote: > Hi, > > I have a laptop with a spare 2.5" drive bay I'd like to install a new disk > into (and run Linux on). > > The laptop uses Intel Rapid Storage Technology, which seems to be some sort > of RAID controller. I can switch it to regular AHCI in the BIOS, bu

Re: [Dorset] Migrating from VirtualBox to KVM/QEMU with virt-manager

2021-01-05 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
On 17/12/2020 21:55, PeterMerchant wrote: > On 17/12/2020 16:34, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I've had enough of VirtualBox's glitchiness, so I'm going to move as >> many of my VMs to KVM/QEMU with virt-manager as possible. This should >> also be more performant, or so I hear. >>

[Dorset] Intel RST?

2021-01-05 Thread Tim Waugh
Hi, I have a laptop with a spare 2.5" drive bay I'd like to install a new disk into (and run Linux on). The laptop uses Intel Rapid Storage Technology, which seems to be some sort of RAID controller. I can switch it to regular AHCI in the BIOS, but if I do that I lose the ability to dual boot wit

[Dorset] CentOS petition

2021-01-05 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
Hi there, I don't know if any of you use/target CentOS/RHEL, but if you do you may be interested in this petition: http://chng.it/8HWPR6j7JN I am doubtful as to the effectiveness of such a thing, but I have gone ahead and signed it anyway. I think Red Hat is making a big mess for their users (an

[Dorset] Next Meeting - Tonight at 8 pm

2021-01-05 Thread Terry Coles
All, The next Online Meeting is tonight at 8 pm using Jitsi. Simply click on the following link and you will be taken to the Meeting using your default browser: https://meet.jit.si/dorset-lug Chrome or Chromium are probably better than Firefox for using Jitsi. An alternative to installing on