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Being a wonderful 60 degrees Fahrenheit, with winds around 20-30 MPH on top of the mountain, it was a wonderful Spring day in Appalachia. Grassy Bald Ridge is apart of the Roan Highlands, a mountain split between Tennessee and North Carolina.
Today was an amazing day to go hiking, and I chose to go to Stone Mountain State Park in Roaring Gap, North Carolina. Stone Mountain is a large slab of granite shooting out of the ground to 2305 feet above sea level. The summit is massive, with multiple granite outcroppings to allow for summit picnics and rest. With a moderate difficulty in hiking, Stone Mountain is a rewarding treat with stunning views, and on a perfect day you can even see Grandfather Mountain in the horizon.
One problem I had with running Debian servers is the inability to easily auto mount SMB shares in order to store and backup data to a central NAS.
After a while of confusing research, I finally found a way to configure fstab to auto mount my SMB shares.
In your fstab file, you can add a line such as this:
//[NAS IP Address]/[SMB Share Location i.e. /public/backup] /[Where you wish to store this SMB folder on your debian based machine] cifs username=[SMB Username],password=[SMB Password],uid=[Desired Debian User to have access],gid=[Desired Debian Group to have access],iocharset=utf8 0 0That’s a lot of information, possibly confusing at first, so here’s an example:
//127.0.0.1/public/backup /var/smbbackup cifs username=debian, password=password, uid=debianUser, gid=smbWrite, iocharset=utf8 0 0FYI: You can have multiple users (uid) and groups (gid) in the same fstab mount
This is just a little impromptu how-to guide for something I occasionally forget, so I hope this helps someone!
First, enable IOMMU on your motherboard (also known as VT-d for Intel chips), then boot to Proxmox.
Access the shell of Proxmox and input the following:
nano /etc/default/grubGRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet intel_iommu=on"GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet iommu=pt"Save the changes using Ctrl+O and then exit using Ctrl+X
update-grubReboot Proxmox
You can verify the commands work by running:
dmesg | grep -e DMAR -e IOMMUIn your desired VM settings, you can now pass through your PCI device to the virtual machine