In my last post I wrote about to getting my Pi2 to boot with HYP enabled on all 4 CPUs. The next stage is to get a kernel with KVM enabled and get a VM up and running. Once again most of this method is taken from a blog post by @sergiolpascual{.twitter-atreply.pretty-link} I have tidied it up and refined the method of using a single CPU core without patching QEMU.

I have been playing with my Raspberry Pi2 and a nearly pure build of Debian Jessie. I have now got u-boot and QEMU with hardware acceleration (kvm) working in a fairly clean way.

Hazel Smith gave an excellent talk at FLOSSUK’s Unconference in London about Linux Capabilities and using them as part of “least privilege” when running backups of Linux systems.

I’ve upgraded some of my systems to Ubuntu 15.04 and found that some system didn’t boot due to poorly documented interactions between Systemd and /etc/crypttab.

I recently replaced my old Yubikey with one of the new Yubikey NEO’s, I wanted a simple and secure way of storing my GPG key as well 2 factor authentication.