VMware by Broadcom discontinued the VMware Workstation Player product line completely and released the VMware Workstation Pro 17 (and later versions) for free for personal use. In this article, I will show you how to install the free VMware Workstation Pro 17 desktop virtualization software on the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS operating system. …
VMware by Broadcom discontinued the VMware Workstation Player product line completely and released the VMware Workstation Pro 17 (and later versions) for free for personal use. In this article, I will show you how to download and install the free VMware Workstation Pro 17 on the Windows 10/11 operating system. …
After VMware was acquired by Broadcom, they made a lot of changes to the licensing model of VMware products. One of those changes is the release of the free VMware Workstation/Fusion Pro versions for personal use. VMware by Broadcom decided to release the VMware Workstation/Fusion Pro desktop virtualization software (Type-II hypervisor) for free for personal…
If you passthrough an NVIDIA GPU to a Fedora 40 Proxmox VE virtual machine, you get many benefits, such as: Stream the virtual machine’s display directly on the monitor connected to the NVIDIA GPU. Add a USB keyboard and a mouse to the virtual machine and use it like a real desktop computer. Get near-native…
Downloading the Fedora 40 ISO Image and Transferring it to Proxmox VE To install Fedora 40 on a Proxmox VE virtual machine, you will need the ISO installation image of Fedora 40. You can download the ISO image of Fedora Workstation (the default Fedora spin with GNOME desktop environment) from this link. Fedora 40 has…
Nautilus file manager can share directories/folders of your Ubuntu 24.04 LTS system that you can access from Windows, MacOS, and other Linux devices. You may not find the file-sharing option in the context menu of the Nautilus file manager in a new Ubuntu 24.04 LTS installation. That’s because the Nautilus file-sharing option is not enabled…
WOL – Wake-on-LAN is a feature of the Synology NAS that allows you to turn on your Synology NAS from any computer on the same network as your Synology NAS without needing to press the power button of your Synology NAS. If you want to keep your Synology NAS locked in a cabinet, or on…
MAC address is a unique identifier of a network interface. A unique MAC address is burned into the network interface card (NIC) by the manufacturer so that you never have conflicting MAC addresses. You may need to know the MAC address of the network interfaces of your Synology NAS for many reasons, such as: To…
Synology Assistant is an official Synology app that can be used to: Scan your LAN for Synology NAS devices Install the DSM software on your Synology NAS Access the DSM web interface of your Synology NAS Mount shared folders of your Synology NAS on your computer Turn on Synology NAS remotely via Wake-on-LAN (WOL) In…
For GPU passthrough to work or for installing specific device drivers on a Proxmox VE virtual machine, you may need to disable UEFI Secure Boot on your Proxmox VE virtual machine. In this article, I will show you how to disable UEFI secure boot on a Proxmox VE virtual machine. The procedures shown in this…