Looks like the update and reboot went okay! New versions of libvirt and qemu now running. If anyone notices a problem, please post here. Thanks to all the Crunchy neighbors, and thanks especially to @crunchbits for wonderful Crunchy!
Several libvirt and libvirt related packages have been upgraded. I'm not expecting any problems, but it could happen. Please let me know about any issues. Thanks!
Tom
root@crunchy:~# apt-get upgrade
[ . . . ]
The following packages will be upgraded:
klibc-utils libgnutls30 libklibc libvirt-clients libvirt-daemon
libvirt-daemon-config-network libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter
libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu libvirt-daemon-system libvirt-daemon-system-systemd
libvirt0
[ . . . ]
Running kernel seems to be up-to-date.
The processor microcode seems to be up-to-date.
Restarting services...
systemctl restart packagekit.service systemd-resolved.service
[ . . . ]
No user sessions are running outdated binaries.
No VM guests are running outdated hypervisor (qemu) binaries on this host.
root@crunchy:~#
Ubuntu says: "*** System restart required ***" So, let's reboot again. Right now it's Friday April 19 05:10:14 PM UTC 2024. So maybe on Sunday approximately the same time?
Hello, I contacted you on NodeSeek (my ID is the same as NodeSeek) I would also like to have this VPS, if you see it, please contact me through NodeSeek
@chentaiyang said:
Hello, I contacted you on NodeSeek (my ID is the same as NodeSeek) I would also like to have this VPS, if you see it, please contact me through NodeSeek
Hi @chentaiyang! Reserving a VM for you! Sent you a message on Nodeseek requesting payment and your ed25519 ssh public key. Thanks for your interest in MetalVPS and Crunchy!
@chentaiyang said:
Hello, I contacted you on NodeSeek (my ID is the same as NodeSeek) I would also like to have this VPS, if you see it, please contact me through NodeSeek
Hi @chentaiyang! Reserving a VM for you! Sent you a message on Nodeseek requesting payment and your ed25519 ssh public key. Thanks for your interest in MetalVPS and Crunchy!
Hi again @chentaiyang! Thanks for your $1.01! Your VM has been assigned and login info has been sent to you via Nodeseek. Welcome to MetalVPS and Crunchy! Good luck and have fun! Let me know, please, if there is anything I can do to help you!
@Not_Oles are you still using the server you got from oneprovider? How's their uptime? I only had for 1 month and they seemed OK for that duration. Wondering if it's the same for you.
Sorry to say that the last of the previously configured VMs on Crunchy has been taken. MetalVPS needs to do something additional. For example, MetalVPS could add additional slots on Crunchy or add an additional bare metal server Node.
Please continue to follow my posts on Low End Spirit, on Low End Talk, and at Nodeseek. Please feel free to post here, send me a PM, or send me an email if you have any questions. Thank you!
@7boss said:
Hello, I learned about your project through the nodeseek forum. I have a need for your project and I don’t know if I can get a quota.
Hi @7boss! Welcome to LES! When you have time, please read my post just above your post. I hope you enjoy your new membership here at LES! Best wishes! Tom
@7boss said:
Hello, I learned about your project through the nodeseek forum. I have a need for your project and I don’t know if I can get a quota.
Hi @7boss! Welcome to LES! When you have time, please read my post just above your post. I hope you enjoy your new membership here at LES! Best wishes! Tom
@7boss said:
Hello, I learned about your project through the nodeseek forum. I have a need for your project and I don’t know if I can get a quota.
Hi @7boss! Welcome to LES! When you have time, please read my post just above your post. I hope you enjoy your new membership here at LES! Best wishes! Tom
Then will the quota be increased?
I'm not sure yet.
If you look at the vnstat output, there is available bandwidth, because nobody is using much:
There is available RAM, because, at 4 GB per VM, and 8 VMs, we're only using 32 of Crunchy's 64 GB of DDR4 ECC RAM (although 22 Gi is cached).
root@crunchy:~# free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 62Gi 14Gi 25Gi 2.0Mi 22Gi 47Gi
Swap: 4.0Gi 0B 4.0Gi
root@crunchy:~#
One issue is that the server only has 8 TB of disk space and each of the existing VMs is assigned 1000 GB. On the other hand, nobody is using much disk space at all:
root@crunchy:~# cd /var/lib/libvirt/images; ls -lh
total 40G
-rw-r--r-- 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 362M Feb 12 01:54 debian-12-generic-amd64.qcow2
-rw------- 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 2.9G Apr 26 05:51 vm100-crunchy.qcow2
-rw------- 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 3.1G Apr 26 05:51 vm101-crunchy.qcow2
-rw------- 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 15G Apr 26 05:51 vm102-crunchy.qcow2
-rw------- 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 6.3G Apr 26 05:51 vm103-crunchy.qcow2
-rw------- 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 7.2G Apr 26 05:51 vm104-crunchy.qcow2
-rw------- 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 13G Apr 26 05:51 vm105-crunchy.qcow2
-rw------- 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 6.1G Apr 26 04:47 vm106-crunchy.qcow2
-rw------- 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 1.3G Apr 26 05:51 vm107-crunchy.qcow2
-rw------- 1 root root 2.8G Mar 12 15:35 vm1-crunchy.qcow2 # Test VM which is turned off.
-rw------- 1 root root 342M Mar 12 15:35 vm2-crunchy.qcow2 # Another test VM, also turned off.
root@crunchy:/var/lib/libvirt/images#
I guess the reasonable possibilities include adding more disks, decreasing the disk allocation per VM, or adding an additional server Node.
Adding another Node would be great, but it's hard for me to imagine enough guys willing to pay enough to cover the cost of rental for another Node. We have Crunchy for free until November 8, so that's the only reason why the $1.01 once price could happen.
I also would love to add some IPv4s and an IPv6/48 to Crunchy.
Hopefully @crunchbits might chime in here, even though they're quite busy at the moment. @crunchbits has interesting stuff coming up before too long.
Thanks again for your question! What do you think should be done?
Special thanks to @crunchbits for gorgeous Crunchy! Thanks to @babywhale for bashvm, which is being used to make the Crunchy VMs.
@7boss said:
Hello, I learned about your project through the nodeseek forum. I have a need for your project and I don’t know if I can get a quota.
Hi @7boss! Welcome to LES! When you have time, please read my post just above your post. I hope you enjoy your new membership here at LES! Best wishes! Tom
Then will the quota be increased?
I'm not sure yet.
If you look at the vnstat output, there is available bandwidth, because nobody is using much:
There is available RAM, because, at 4 GB per VM, and 8 VMs, we're only using 32 of Crunchy's 64 GB of DDR4 ECC RAM (although 22 Gi is cached).
root@crunchy:~# free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 62Gi 14Gi 25Gi 2.0Mi 22Gi 47Gi
Swap: 4.0Gi 0B 4.0Gi
root@crunchy:~#
One issue is that the server only has 8 TB of disk space and each of the existing VMs is assigned 1000 GB. On the other hand, nobody is using much disk space at all:
root@crunchy:~# cd /var/lib/libvirt/images; ls -lh
total 40G
-rw-r--r-- 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 362M Feb 12 01:54 debian-12-generic-amd64.qcow2
-rw------- 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 2.9G Apr 26 05:51 vm100-crunchy.qcow2
-rw------- 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 3.1G Apr 26 05:51 vm101-crunchy.qcow2
-rw------- 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 15G Apr 26 05:51 vm102-crunchy.qcow2
-rw------- 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 6.3G Apr 26 05:51 vm103-crunchy.qcow2
-rw------- 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 7.2G Apr 26 05:51 vm104-crunchy.qcow2
-rw------- 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 13G Apr 26 05:51 vm105-crunchy.qcow2
-rw------- 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 6.1G Apr 26 04:47 vm106-crunchy.qcow2
-rw------- 1 libvirt-qemu kvm 1.3G Apr 26 05:51 vm107-crunchy.qcow2
-rw------- 1 root root 2.8G Mar 12 15:35 vm1-crunchy.qcow2 # Test VM which is turned off.
-rw------- 1 root root 342M Mar 12 15:35 vm2-crunchy.qcow2 # Another test VM, also turned off.
root@crunchy:/var/lib/libvirt/images#
I guess the reasonable possibilities include adding more disks, decreasing the disk allocation per VM, or adding an additional server Node.
Adding another Node would be great, but it's hard for me to imagine enough guys willing to pay enough to cover the cost of rental for another Node. We have Crunchy for free until November 8, so that's the only reason why the $1.01 once price could happen.
I also would love to add some IPv4s and an IPv6/48 to Crunchy.
Hopefully @crunchbits might chime in here, even though they're quite busy at the moment. @crunchbits has interesting stuff coming up before too long.
Thanks again for your question! What do you think should be done?
Special thanks to @crunchbits for gorgeous Crunchy! Thanks to @babywhale for bashvm, which is being used to make the Crunchy VMs.
Thank you so much @crunchbits for hosting this great event and I look forward to more quotas and participation in this event
Please contact me if more quota is awarded, I'm really looking forward to participating, thank you and @crunchbits again!
@somik said: @Not_Oles are you still using the server you got from oneprovider? How's their uptime? I only had for 1 month and they seemed OK for that duration. Wondering if it's the same for you.
Yeah, it was okay uptime for me as well. Not using them any more. Cheap enough, butonly one disk and not ECC RAM if I remember correctly. For the servers I had, it seemed that their installs might have been at least partially by hand. Their FreeBSD panel auto-installs were an old EOL version, sometimes took hours, and seemed not always to succeed. Once I found what looked like install / setup commands in root's shell history. Also it seemed that the same servers were available directly from the underlying provider for about the same price and with additional IPv6 if I remember correctly. It was fun to try, though, and we had some nice discussions in those threads!
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Here is another peek inside Crunchy! Still two places available!
Thanks to @crunchbits for awesome Crunchy!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
@Not_Oles PMing you
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Hello!
Ubuntu's MOTD is telling us "*** System restart required ***".
Does everybody have everything backed up?
Any issues with a reboot, maybe about 00:00 UTC Thursday April 11?
Right now, aboard Crunchy:
Please note that we still have two VMs available. If interested, please read the OP.
Thanks to @crunchbits for wonderful Crunchy!
Thanks to our Neighbors using Crunchy's VPSes! 
Tom
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Glad to see this project still going strong! Thanks @Not_Oles and everyone involved for providing this learning environment
Ympker's VPN LTD Comparison, Uptime.is, Ympker's GitHub.
You can proceed
Looks like the update and reboot went okay! New versions of libvirt and qemu now running. If anyone notices a problem, please post here. Thanks to all the Crunchy neighbors, and thanks especially to @crunchbits for wonderful Crunchy!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Also, we still have two slots available! Please read the OP if you want one! Thanks!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Still two VPSes available!
Thanks to @crunchbits for wonderful Crunchy!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Hello!
Several libvirt and libvirt related packages have been upgraded. I'm not expecting any problems, but it could happen. Please let me know about any issues. Thanks!
Tom
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Hello!
Ubuntu says: "*** System restart required ***" So, let's reboot again. Right now it's Friday April 19 05:10:14 PM UTC 2024. So maybe on Sunday approximately the same time?
vm106 and vm107 remain available.
Thanks to @crunchbits for wonderful Crunchy!
Best wishes!
Tom
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Good morning! Time to reboot in a few minutes! Right now:
Thanks to @crunchbits!
Still two VMs available!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Looks like the reboot went okay!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Hello, I contacted you on NodeSeek (my ID is the same as NodeSeek) I would also like to have this VPS, if you see it, please contact me through NodeSeek
Hi @chentaiyang! Reserving a VM for you! Sent you a message on Nodeseek requesting payment and your ed25519 ssh public key. Thanks for your interest in MetalVPS and Crunchy!
Thanks to @crunchbits for wonderful Crunchy!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Hi again @chentaiyang! Thanks for your $1.01! Your VM has been assigned and login info has been sent to you via Nodeseek. Welcome to MetalVPS and Crunchy! Good luck and have fun! Let me know, please, if there is anything I can do to help you!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Guys, only one more VM in the current round! Thanks to @crunchbits for wonderful Crunchy!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
it's amazing
@Not_Oles are you still using the server you got from oneprovider? How's their uptime? I only had for 1 month and they seemed OK for that duration. Wondering if it's the same for you.
Artificial intelligence is no match for our natural stupidity.
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
Hi
Could i also pay with crypto? I have some Ethereum in the Arbitrum One network!
MetalVPS was reviewed on Nodeseek.
https://www.nodeseek.com/post-99621-1
Thanks to @chentaiyang for the review.
Thanks to @crunchbits for wonderful Crunchy! 
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Sorry to say that the last of the previously configured VMs on Crunchy has been taken. MetalVPS needs to do something additional. For example, MetalVPS could add additional slots on Crunchy or add an additional bare metal server Node.
Please continue to follow my posts on Low End Spirit, on Low End Talk, and at Nodeseek. Please feel free to post here, send me a PM, or send me an email if you have any questions. Thank you!
Thanks to @crunchbits for wonderful Crunchy!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Hello, I learned about your project through the nodeseek forum. I have a need for your project and I don’t know if I can get a quota.
Hi @7boss! Welcome to LES! When you have time, please read my post just above your post.
I hope you enjoy your new membership here at LES! Best wishes! Tom
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Then will the quota be increased?
I'm not sure yet.
If you look at the
vnstatoutput, there is available bandwidth, because nobody is using much:There is available RAM, because, at 4 GB per VM, and 8 VMs, we're only using 32 of Crunchy's 64 GB of DDR4 ECC RAM (although 22 Gi is cached).
One issue is that the server only has 8 TB of disk space and each of the existing VMs is assigned 1000 GB. On the other hand, nobody is using much disk space at all:
I guess the reasonable possibilities include adding more disks, decreasing the disk allocation per VM, or adding an additional server Node.
Adding another Node would be great, but it's hard for me to imagine enough guys willing to pay enough to cover the cost of rental for another Node. We have Crunchy for free until November 8, so that's the only reason why the $1.01 once price could happen.
I also would love to add some IPv4s and an IPv6/48 to Crunchy.
Hopefully @crunchbits might chime in here, even though they're quite busy at the moment. @crunchbits has interesting stuff coming up before too long.
Thanks again for your question! What do you think should be done?
Special thanks to @crunchbits for gorgeous Crunchy!
Thanks to @babywhale for bashvm, which is being used to make the Crunchy VMs.
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
I know about your product from nodeseek. How can I buy Crunchy vps? Can I reply and provide the public key?
Thanks for your interest in Crunchy!
Maybe you could please read the latest posts here in this thread and also on Nodeseek?
How to apply is covered in the first post in this thread.
Thanks again! Best wishes!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!
Thank you so much @crunchbits for hosting this great event and I look forward to more quotas and participation in this event
Please contact me if more quota is awarded, I'm really looking forward to participating, thank you and @crunchbits again!
Can you tell me what the PayPal receiving account is
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Yeah, it was okay uptime for me as well. Not using them any more. Cheap enough, butonly one disk and not ECC RAM if I remember correctly. For the servers I had, it seemed that their installs might have been at least partially by hand. Their FreeBSD panel auto-installs were an old EOL version, sometimes took hours, and seemed not always to succeed. Once I found what looked like install / setup commands in root's shell history. Also it seemed that the same servers were available directly from the underlying provider for about the same price and with additional IPv6 if I remember correctly. It was fun to try, though, and we had some nice discussions in those threads!
I hope everyone gets the servers they want!