Docs tagged linux

• First boot

  Bring a freshly installed Debian 13 host up to a working baseline — an administrative user, a hardened SSH server, and SSH keys synced from GitHub.

• Pass a GPU through to a VM

  Reserve a discrete GPU for VFIO on a Debian host and attach it to a libvirt VM from the Cockpit console.

• Set up Cockpit

  Install the Cockpit web console and the libvirt stack on Debian, and get the Virtual machines page working.

• First boot

  Take a fresh Debian 13 host to a working baseline in one paste — an administrative user, an SSH server hardened to Mozilla's Modern profile, keys imported from GitHub daily, and optionally Tailscale.

• Set up NVIDIA GPU passthrough

  Install the libvirt/QEMU stack on a Debian 13 host and reserve an NVIDIA card for VFIO in one paste, up to the reboot that hands the card over.

• Add an admin account

  Create a second root-equivalent administrator on a Proxmox VE 9 host in one paste — Unix account, sudo, an Administrator role in the web UI, and SSH keys pulled from GitHub daily.

• Set up NVIDIA GPU passthrough

  Reserve an NVIDIA card for VFIO on a Proxmox VE 9 host in one paste — module binding, initramfs, and the kernel command line for whichever bootloader the host uses.