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Introduction

Google Cloud's Compute Engine uses KVM as the hypervisor. Nuff said in terms of longevity, security and support. The other advantage and reason I settled on KVM is that unlike other hypervisors it works with pretty much any hardware (which I found out the hard way trying to get my old Dell laptop working with other options first). foundational home cloud... based on KVM used by Google Cloud

What is outlined here can be considered foundational home Cloud to gain an under the hoods look at Google Cloud engine.

Setup Server

Setup Ubuntu Server on Dell Laptop laptop (really don't use Dell because it has various challenges... ).

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# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto br0
iface br0 inet static
   address 192.168.0.7
   netmask 255.255.255.0
   gateway 192.168.0.1
   dns-nameservers 192.168.0.1
   bridge_ports enp2s0
   bridge_stp on
   bridge_fd 0.0

If interested, you may want to read more details about bridge networking for virtualization.

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Ubuntu Desktop

Did not work retrofitting... so this time trying during vm setup before install,

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