Freebsd Command

sysctl command to find out how much RAM is installed on a FreeBSD

$ sysctl hw.physmem
$ sysctl hw | egrep 'hw.(phys|user|real)'

Or ·$ grep memory /var/run/dmesg.boot·

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Powerful Socat

The socat command shuffles data between two locations. One way to think of socat is as the cat command which transfers data between two locations rather than from a file to standard output. I say that socat works on two locations rather than two files because you can grab data from a network socket, named pipe, or even setup a general virtual network interface as one end point.

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Qcow2 Backing File

Assume that you already have your base image as a qcow2 - Ubuntu cloud image for example. Below command can create 2 images for 2 guest machines basing same image.

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Port Forwarding

NAT in iptables. So that, all the packets coming to 192.168.12.87 and port 80 will be forwarded to 192.168.12.77 port 80

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Ubuntu Cloud Image On Vmware

I always look to update the Linux virtual machine running on top of VMware workstation on Window 10 Desktop. Where Ubuntu has its daily build of cloud images published at their website. Natrually it is ideal for me to get familar how it is working and start working with it.

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You're up and running!

Next you can update your site name, avatar and other options using the _config.yml file in the root of your repository (shown below).

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