Welcome to LES! I like your fun username! As far as what you need to do is concerned, how about these suggestions from the OP?
@Not_Oles said: If you have a new LES account, please introduce yourself in your post. Please tell us what you plan to do with your MetalVPS account.
Your introduction could include who and where you are plus a link to your website if you have one, or maybe to your Github, or to your online presence in other wonderful places, HN, your publications as listed on arxiv.org, something else? Whatever. . . .
@ehab said: @Not_Oles can you please provide account for Shallow, his key is above.
Thanks a lot.
No dice.
Sad.
Ya, what can you do? @Not_Oles is just ignoring my request at this point. Not sure why but that's up to him I guess. Not free for all after all. I'll stick to paid services not play services.
@shallow said:
Ya, what can you do? @Not_Oles is just ignoring my request at this point. Not sure why but that's up to him I guess. Not free for all after all. I'll stick to paid services not play services.
@shallow said:
Don't worry about it, he's not interested. He will just ignore. I'll never learn about linux containers now.
I will sleep well.
Of course, I might be missing some context of friendly banter here, but normally if you're asking for a favour from someone it usually pays to be nice to them.
If this was me and I'd simply missed your message, seeing this kind of self-entitled response wouldn't make me rush out and help you, it'd make me wonder what you'd be like further down the line.
@shallow said:
Ya, what can you do? @Not_Oles is just ignoring my request at this point. Not sure why but that's up to him I guess. Not free for all after all. I'll stick to paid services not play services.
@shallow said:
Don't worry about it, he's not interested. He will just ignore. I'll never learn about linux containers now.
I will sleep well.
Of course, I might be missing some context of friendly banter here, but normally if you're asking for a favour from someone it usually pays to be nice to them.
If this was me and I'd simply missed your message, seeing this kind of self-entitled response wouldn't make me rush out and help you, it'd make me wonder what you'd be like further down the line.
+1. Be nice to those providing play services at their own dime.
I want to join this free vps thing since it's been awhile I'm testing ipfs (they're better since cloudflare joins in), but eh there are no significant changes.
the last one i want to try something is when Route48 closing their services, so I tried replicated that one (even without /48). not really interested on opening it as public service however, just to sate a curious cat.
good luck i guess, those free things are fun if you're not an opportunist leech
Fuck this 24/7 internet spew of trivia and celebrity bullshit.
From the above linked tutorial, "slirp does not support the ICMP protocol, and so ping doesn’t work."
Further down in the tutorial, it shows terminal output both with ping not working when the VM is launched by an unprivileged neighbor and then with ping working when the VM is launched by the root user.
May I please ask, how did you increase the size of the qcow2 file?
From host machine: qemu-img resize debian-sid-nocloud-amd64-daily.qcow2 +10G
[ . . . ]
From guest machine: root@localhost:~# fdisk /dev/sda
[ scary warnings ]
[ . . . ]
Glad fdisk worked despite those scary warnings! I heard that there is an automatic process for the image to increase its size. I heard something about a script inside the VM which is supposed to increase size automatically. Back on my former server, darkstar, some people reported the automagic increase worked for them, but it didn't seem to work for me. I haven't yet tried to chase down the details.
@cpsd said: First, you need to fix the ssh daemon:
FWIW, it's been awhile since I last set up a VM this way myself. I don't recall having trouble with ssh server. But the image might be different now.
@cpsd said: as I wanted to try a desktop, I installed the x2go daemon and set a required hostname for the guest machine:
Glad you are trying the desktop. I've not tried that recently. Maybe one needs to set additional options in the script that starts the VM in order to take the best advantage of the CPU's built-in graphics processor?
@cpsd said: And I allowed PasswordAuthentication (in /etc/ssh/sshd_config)
I wonder how strong a password is possible. And whether 2FA is available. Maybe one might even consider shutting down the VM when it is not in use?
I think of @ehab as my good friend from the Writers Group. I enjoy his posts. When @ehab posted here in this thread shortly after @shallow made his request, it seemed to me that perhaps my friend @ehab might have been trying to warn me to be careful of @shallow, whom I am just now getting to know.
When I went to look at @shallow's profile, I saw "About Me: Joe is shit. Eat shit lumber foot." Google didn't seem to have much to tell me about "Joe is shit. Eat shit lumberfoot."
I was and still am very confused.
Next there were additional posts from several people. And a PM too! @ehab and @shallow seemed possibly to take a view with which @ralf and @terrorgen seemed possibly to disagree.
Maybe everything that happened was a misunderstanding. Maybe I should instantly have given @shallow a MetalVPS account the first time that @ehab asked politely. But there remained the confusion in my mind from @shallow's profile's "Joe is shit. Eat shit lumberfoot." I wasn't sure how to talk about my confusion.
Thanks so much to @ralf and @terrorgen for always trying to be helpful! You guys are the best!
I really like LES! It's our friendly community! I am a happy guy! I think we all should be friendly and polite toward each other.
@shallow If you want to add anything to your request for a MetalVPS account, please go ahead and post again. I will happily consider whatever you say. But please realize that I might need a little time to think before I respond.
@ehab Thanks for your great writing and for your continually trying to help others! Thanks for participating in my threads! Respectfully, however, could you please consider taking it a little easier when you post in my threads?
@Encoders said:
I want to join this free vps thing since it's been awhile I'm testing ipfs (they're better since cloudflare joins in), but eh there are no significant changes.
the last one i want to try something is when Route48 closing their services, so I tried replicated that one (even without /48). not really interested on opening it as public service however, just to sate a curious cat.
good luck i guess, those free things are fun if you're not an opportunist leech
Please tell us how we should understand your signature, which now says "Fuck this 24/7 internet spew of trivia and celebrity bullshit." I'm also confused about how to decide who is an "opportunist leech."
If you want to add anything to your request for a MetalVPS account, please post again. I will be delighted to consider more information about you, who and where you are, your command line experience, and what you want to do on the server. I will keep trying to give you an account.
Thanks again!
Best wishes and kindest regards,
Tom
Edit to add: An ed25519 ssh public key also is needed. Thanks!
Well I would like to share how I have prepared a a new VM with desktop using a rustdesk self hosted server https://rustdesk.com/docs/en/self-host/ which only allows metalvps's IP and mine. This is like Teamviewer/Anydesk.
I'm also confused about how to decide who is an "opportunist leech."
worst case scenario in any of free services
If you want to add anything to your request for a MetalVPS account, please post again. I will be delighted to consider more information about you, who and where you are, your command line experience, and what you want to do on the server. I will keep trying to give you an account.
I will not ask for an account, I'll hit you up once i have something interesting to try on
@Advin said: @Not_Oles Any plans to try out that new 7950X3D Hetzner just launched?
oh! they are not offering AX101 anymore, for this new AX102
I suspect there's no great advantage of the 7950X3D over the 7950X other than there'll be some cheaper AX101s being recycled in the server auction going forward.
What do you think about having a range of ports with blocked incoming traffic ? Just in case we need to use VNC to connect to our vps or another daemon. Just a range of ports.
Something like this iptables rule:
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 1024:35000 -j REJECT
And then, you can allow one specific IP addresses for any user account with a rule like:
iptables -I INPUT -s X.X.X.X -p tcp -j ACCEPT
You need theses packages
apt-get install iptables iptables-persistent netfilter-persistent
netfilter-persistent save
Or you can implement a secretly knock a combination of fixed ports to allow our current IP address
apt-get install knockd -y
You need to change to configuration files.
The first one needs our network interface name enp4s0 and activation: /etc/default/knockd
START_KNOCKD=1
KNOCKD_OPTS="-i enp4s0"
The second needs the rules: /etc/knockd.conf
Port1,Port2,Port3,Port4,Port5,Port6 are any ports outside of the rejected range !
cpsd@fsn:~$ whereis iptables
iptables: /usr/sbin/iptables (this binary location can change in other system)
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 1024:35000 -j REJECT
That's a huge range of ports to block for no good reason, especially as VNC is only enabled on localhost by default anyway. If it has been changed for some reason, change vnc_listen back to 127.0.0.1 in /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf.
If you really want to use VNC with this set to localhost only, you can still use ssh port forwarding to achieve it.
Greetings Tom!
Been a while since we spoke, I hope all is well. Looks like you (once again) have a cool thing going on here. I'd be interested in tinkering around in all the wild stuff you get up to in Hetzner ServerLand. I have a few LXC ideas I'd like fiddle with. If you have room and are willing I'd like to join in the fun!
Thanks, and let me know if you need some other info.
@thagoat said:
Greetings Tom!
Been a while since we spoke, I hope all is well. Looks like you (once again) have a cool thing going on here. I'd be interested in tinkering around in all the wild stuff you get up to in Hetzner ServerLand. I have a few LXC ideas I'd like fiddle with. If you have room and are willing I'd like to join in the fun!
Thanks, and let me know if you need some other info.
Hello! Yeah, nice to hear from you! The only thing I need from you is your ed25519 ssh public key. Thanks! It will be nice to have you on the server! Best!
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Hi @c0untch0cula!
Welcome to LES! I like your fun username! As far as what you need to do is concerned, how about these suggestions from the OP?
Your introduction could include who and where you are plus a link to your website if you have one, or maybe to your Github, or to your online presence in other wonderful places, HN, your publications as listed on arxiv.org, something else? Whatever. . . .
See you soon on the server!
Best!
Tom
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Any questions?
Best! 
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
@cpsd Hey! Thanks for all the details! I want to read carefully everything you said, but it's getting late here. So, tomorrow. . . . Thanks again!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Sad.
Ya, what can you do? @Not_Oles is just ignoring my request at this point. Not sure why but that's up to him I guess. Not free for all after all. I'll stick to paid services not play services.
I blame @ehab for jinxing me.
maybe i had a part of it.
but thats what friends are for.
don't worry we, can still knock on his door
@Not_Oles hey man, can you kindly give @shallow access to a car free shell account. His key was added earlier.
Don't worry about it, he's not interested. He will just ignore. I'll never learn about linux containers now.
I will sleep well.
Of course, I might be missing some context of friendly banter here, but normally if you're asking for a favour from someone it usually pays to be nice to them.
If this was me and I'd simply missed your message, seeing this kind of self-entitled response wouldn't make me rush out and help you, it'd make me wonder what you'd be like further down the line.
+1. Be nice to those providing play services at their own dime.
The all seeing eye sees everything...
I want to join this free vps thing since it's been awhile I'm testing ipfs (they're better since cloudflare joins in), but eh there are no significant changes.
the last one i want to try something is when Route48 closing their services, so I tried replicated that one (even without /48). not really interested on opening it as public service however, just to sate a curious cat.
good luck i guess, those free things are fun if you're not an opportunist leech
Fuck this 24/7 internet spew of trivia and celebrity bullshit.
Hi @cpsd!
From the above linked tutorial, "slirp does not support the ICMP protocol, and so ping doesn’t work."
Further down in the tutorial, it shows terminal output both with ping not working when the VM is launched by an unprivileged neighbor and then with ping working when the VM is launched by the root user.
Glad fdisk worked despite those scary warnings! I heard that there is an automatic process for the image to increase its size. I heard something about a script inside the VM which is supposed to increase size automatically. Back on my former server, darkstar, some people reported the automagic increase worked for them, but it didn't seem to work for me. I haven't yet tried to chase down the details.
FWIW, it's been awhile since I last set up a VM this way myself. I don't recall having trouble with ssh server. But the image might be different now.
Glad you are trying the desktop. I've not tried that recently. Maybe one needs to set additional options in the script that starts the VM in order to take the best advantage of the CPU's built-in graphics processor?
I wonder how strong a password is possible. And whether 2FA is available. Maybe one might even consider shutting down the VM when it is not in use?
Congrats on getting all this going!
Best wishes!
Tom
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
I think of @ehab as my good friend from the Writers Group. I enjoy his posts. When @ehab posted here in this thread shortly after @shallow made his request, it seemed to me that perhaps my friend @ehab might have been trying to warn me to be careful of @shallow, whom I am just now getting to know.
When I went to look at @shallow's profile, I saw "About Me: Joe is shit. Eat shit lumber foot." Google didn't seem to have much to tell me about "Joe is shit. Eat shit lumberfoot."
I was and still am very confused.
Next there were additional posts from several people. And a PM too! @ehab and @shallow seemed possibly to take a view with which @ralf and @terrorgen seemed possibly to disagree.
Maybe everything that happened was a misunderstanding. Maybe I should instantly have given @shallow a MetalVPS account the first time that @ehab asked politely. But there remained the confusion in my mind from @shallow's profile's "Joe is shit. Eat shit lumberfoot." I wasn't sure how to talk about my confusion.
Thanks so much to @ralf
and @terrorgen 
for always trying to be helpful! You guys are the best!
I really like LES! It's our friendly community! I am a happy guy! I think we all should be friendly and polite toward each other.
@shallow If you want to add anything to your request for a MetalVPS account, please go ahead and post again. I will happily consider whatever you say. But please realize that I might need a little time to think before I respond.
@ehab Thanks for your great writing and for your continually trying to help others! Thanks for participating in my threads! Respectfully, however, could you please consider taking it a little easier when you post in my threads?
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Hi @Encoders!
Thanks for asking to join MetalVPS!
Please tell us how we should understand your signature, which now says "Fuck this 24/7 internet spew of trivia and celebrity bullshit." I'm also confused about how to decide who is an "opportunist leech."
If you want to add anything to your request for a MetalVPS account, please post again. I will be delighted to consider more information about you, who and where you are, your command line experience, and what you want to do on the server. I will keep trying to give you an account.
Thanks again!
Best wishes and kindest regards,
Tom
Edit to add: An ed25519 ssh public key also is needed. Thanks!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Well I would like to share how I have prepared a a new VM with desktop using a rustdesk self hosted server https://rustdesk.com/docs/en/self-host/ which only allows metalvps's IP and mine. This is like Teamviewer/Anydesk.
First: create a new disk.
Second: Download your favourite GNU/Linux distribution , in my case I will be using the mini.iso file from http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/bionic-updates/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/
Third: start the VM opening a temporal VNC port (in this example, it will be :5959)
Fourth write in the prompt "change vnc password" and write one password.
Fifth: connect from your VNC viewer to fsn.metalvps.com:5959
Sixth: Install Ubuntu adding Xubuntu Desktop & Openssh server (optional)
Seventh: allow auto-login for your username
sudo mousepad /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/60-xubuntu.conf
y add the third row:
Eighth: download the .deb file from https://rustdesk.com/ website and install it
Ninth : add rustdesk to your boot up process
Reboot the VM and you can see what are your connection details (ID & password)
Now you can connect to your own Rustdesk server for better performance. And poweroff the machine.
Tenth: You can start this VM as a background process in metalvps host and you can connect to see how everything is working:
Bonus: as I have installed the openssh server in my guest machine, I can connect from outside too:
Wow! Thanks @cpsd! This looks pretty cool! I haven't tried RustDesk yet. Google helped me find the Github repo. Best! Tom
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Nice one @cpsd !
https://microlxc.net/
It's a meme https://youtu.be/TTxAlkD-xDI?t=322
worst case scenario in any of free services
I will not ask for an account, I'll hit you up once i have something interesting to try on
Fuck this 24/7 internet spew of trivia and celebrity bullshit.
@Not_Oles Any plans to try out that new 7950X3D Hetzner just launched?
I am a representative of Advin Servers
oh! they are not offering AX101 anymore, for this new AX102
Android 14 | Windows 11 | Ubuntu 24.04
I suspect there's no great advantage of the 7950X3D over the 7950X other than there'll be some cheaper AX101s being recycled in the server auction going forward.
AX102 looks nice! Their RX220 also looks nice!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Hi Tom! How are you doing?
What do you think about having a range of ports with blocked incoming traffic ? Just in case we need to use VNC to connect to our vps or another daemon. Just a range of ports.
Something like this iptables rule:
And then, you can allow one specific IP addresses for any user account with a rule like:
You need theses packages
Or you can implement a secretly knock a combination of fixed ports to allow our current IP address
You need to change to configuration files.
The first one needs our network interface name enp4s0 and activation: /etc/default/knockd
The second needs the rules: /etc/knockd.conf
Port1,Port2,Port3,Port4,Port5,Port6 are any ports outside of the rejected range !
cpsd@fsn:~$ whereis iptables
iptables: /usr/sbin/iptables (this binary location can change in other system)
if the service is not starting, you can manually add this command: /usr/sbin/knockd -i enp4s0 in one of the /etc/init.d/ scripts.
One last thing: the ssh daemon is listening in a port to any ip and its security can be improved with a fail2ban addon:
That's a huge range of ports to block for no good reason, especially as VNC is only enabled on localhost by default anyway. If it has been changed for some reason, change
vnc_listenback to127.0.0.1in/etc/libvirt/qemu.conf.If you really want to use VNC with this set to localhost only, you can still use ssh port forwarding to achieve it.
Greetings Tom!
Been a while since we spoke, I hope all is well. Looks like you (once again) have a cool thing going on here. I'd be interested in tinkering around in all the wild stuff you get up to in Hetzner ServerLand. I have a few LXC ideas I'd like fiddle with. If you have room and are willing I'd like to join in the fun!
Thanks, and let me know if you need some other info.
Hello! Yeah, nice to hear from you! The only thing I need from you is your ed25519 ssh public key. Thanks! It will be nice to have you on the server! Best!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Hello @Not_Oles
I have no clue whatsoever as to how to create lxc and KVM vpses and hoping to learn
Teehee!