Homelab

Setup and maintenance guides for home lab infrastructure — from bare-metal hypervisors to virtual machine management and storage.

Articles

• Proxmox LXC Password Reset — recover access to a container when the password is lost
• Windows 11 VM Installation — VM settings, VirtIO drivers, 24H2 gotchas, post-install steps
• Windows 11 VM: RDP Session Drops — fix CPU throttling, missing VirtIO-GPU driver, ballooning, and SCSI driver bugs that cause RDP to disconnect
• Clear Swap Without Reboot — flush swap safely, check free RAM first, reduce swappiness permanently
• Cloud-Init VM Templates — automate VM provisioning with Cloud-Init: image prep, template creation, cloning, snippets
• Telekom FTTH with a Custom Router — VLAN 7, PPPoE credentials, and step-by-step setup for ASUS, UniFi, and OpenWrt