August 21, 2026
by dhoytt
Comments Off on More Maintenance Had to Shutdown Music Server Temporarily
Ended up updating the XCP-ng hypervisor virtualization server the music sits on which I made virtual this year. Since I passed through a physical USB it couldn’t migrate to the the other XCP-ng server.
You can read about it on another blog on this networked site.
August 21, 2026
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Updated Web Server WordPress and XCP-ng Hypervisors
I decided to updated my Rocky 9.x virtual server and WordPress version to their latest an that went much faster than in the past on my hypervisor servers I built the first of this year. My blade chassis I had been using previously were beefy (7 years old) but the new hardware I have noticed updates of my virtual servers is extremely fast. They went so fast I decided to update the XCP-ng hypervisor servers themselves and since they had kernel updates I decided to reboot onto the new kernel.
Since my I now run my music server as a virtual system and not a physical system I was wondering why I couldn’t migrate from one system to the other and then I recalled I had a USB pass-through so it couldn’t migrate to the other hypervisor so I shutdown the music temporarily for the reboot. Then brought the server back up on my master XCP-ng hypervisor once it was back up. I then migrated the VMs off of the slave XCP-ng hypervisor patched it and rebooted onto the new kernel. Now migrating some Vms back to the XCP-ng slave evening the virtual machines between the two hypervisors.
August 21, 2026
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Homemade Hot Sauce with Garden Peppers
Always expanding my repertoire, this time by creating hot sauce with peppers from my garden! Was mostly jalapeño, some Seranto and a bit of chili peppers.
I fermented for about 10 days and then blended with the brine for more liquidity plus it seems like it had a good portion of the heat.
The sauce isn’t as hot as I expected but has a good light taste. Can’t wait to use it on some food. Tonight I’ll try on some wood fired left over chicken!
August 21, 2026
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Doing Late Night Maintenance
Didn’t plan on doing maintenance but while moving some networking equipment around I disconnected some items so took advantage and updated the Fedora Linux music relay server for IceCast and ShoutCast plus the W2025 that stacks the music, runs the database and streams, provides the encoders that the relay servers stream.
Backup and streaming and evrything appears normal now.
August 15, 2026
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Late Night August Slow Jams
Feeling good with the evening breezes just getting out of the pool wanting that mellow flow to match the Norther California Delta Breeze we get in the evening.
Already in the mix listening to artist like AlB Sure, Pussycat Dolls and looking to forward to Marvin Gaye, Four Tops, Silk Sonic Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Prince, Coldplay and so much more!
August 15, 2026
by dhoytt
Comments Off on OpenSense Hardware Built Testing
Received all of my parts to build my OpenSense router and firewall this week. Put it all together and got it fired up and connected to the networks I want but not controlling anything just yet as I learn what OpenSense can do for my environment.
This is a mini ATX system. Consisting of the following:
Onward with the testing!
August 3, 2026
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Stocking The Fridge Cupboard Squash Bread Bacon
Getting the squash from the garden preserved and bacon made at home, ready for the upcoming months. Making my 5th loaf of squash bread as well.
The bacon I wet brined in a vacuum sealed bag for 10 days in my custom brine. I tasted a piece and may be my best bacon so far!
Next my latest loaf of squash bread it this time I used granulated sugar instead of brown sugar. Tastes good but I prefer it with brown sugar.
Next I cut up some squash from the garden flash freezing it for a couple of hours, then vacuum sealed.
August 1, 2026
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Now On Att 5gb Fiber Connection
As of Wednesday of this week I was switched over to the 5gb fiber ISP service from ATT. Friday July 31 2026 I received and setup my new TpLink BE19000 Tri-Band Wi-Fi 7 Router with 10gbe LAN and WAN connections to be able to access that full bandwidth of 5gb. Everything setup fine I forwarded the ports needed for my servers to work mirroring what I have with my TpLink ArcherAX11000. I have my entire server operation at 10gbe withing my lab and house now except some camera subnets.
Was looking at ways to measure my speeds but there aren’t any sites I see that can measure speeds up to 5-10gbps. Everything seems 1gbps max for internet speed tests. I’ll try to find some server with iperf or something to test with possibly. Interestingly enough the ATT modem shows it’s at 10gb.
Things do seem to be moving faster even for my wireless. We will see. for now due to the finicky behavior of switching over some of my IOT devices I kept my TpLink ArcherAX11000 connected to them as an access point.
More testing and usage to come!
July 25, 2026
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Passed Through USB Sound Device XCP-ng
I passed through a USB sound device via the XCP-ng UI on version 8.3. Went fairly well but sounded a bit scratchy when I used the device in VM in my Broadcasting application Sam Broadcaster. I’ll try using it again but so far having to go with my silent output for my sound pipeline in the SAM application.
This is how it looked in the CLI before and after
~]# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 0624:0249 Avocent Corp. Virtual Keyboard/Mouse
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0624:0248 Avocent Corp. Virtual Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
[22:15 ~]# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 0624:0249 Avocent Corp. Virtual Keyboard/Mouse
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0624:0248 Avocent Corp. Virtual Hub
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 041e:3042 Creative Technology, Ltd
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
[22:31 ~]# xe pusb-list
uuid ( RO) : 009f7ec1-d49b-11da-8f34-1de8d6128031
path ( RO): 1-2
vendor-id ( RO): 041e
vendor-desc ( RO): Creative Technology, Ltd
product-id ( RO): 3042
product-desc ( RO):
serial ( RO): <blank>
version ( RO): 1.10
description ( RO): Creative Technology, Ltd_<blank>
speed ( RO): 12.000
July 23, 2026
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Both XCP-ng 8.3 Servers in Rack
Doesn’t look pretty but I now have both!of the XCP-ng servers I built, fine tuned and stress tested in my rack. I’ll post specs later. Now my C7000 is retired I just have to clean it up and find it a new home!
I had to enlarge one hole in one of my rails attached to my 4U server case and move my rails down an inch. Physically besides connecting the networking that was the only hiccup. Now my hallway is empty and its time for cleanup. This will now give me back my work space for testing and building new equipment.
The servers are still a bit noisy as I went with the high end 8k rpm fans even though I have active heat sinks with fans. I’ll explore more liquid cooling but its a lot more work with server class CPUs. A bit more work than I set out to do with all of the updates but saves me time and gives my weekends more time for other things I’m hoping. Would have completed this earlier this week but I was really ill, still feel something and have to visit the doctor tomorrow so will see.
I officially removed my Bl460 HP Gen 8 Blades from being XCP-ng servers in my pool as well. They did a great job but I can already tell these new servers are much faster!
Made sure my Xcp-ng were at the latest patch revisions for XCP-ng 8.3 plus updated my community XO version via git. Then updated my web server, music relay server for IceCast and ShoutCast and music server. Had to swap my VMs between virtual servers as some patches required a reboot. Reminded me why I wanted more memory before this AI trend of gobbling up the computer chips.
I obviously need do cable management, I will rack my switches in a new manner plus a host of other things like a custom built open source router rebuild. I needed to reboot my router I was using for NAT forwarding.
