Headless VirtualBox

Sometimes I need to run a headless VirtualBox VM. Here’s a couple scripts to build one up and get one running with VNC access: root@colinbsd:/prodVMs # cat makeOpenProj VBoxManage createvm –name openproject –ostype FreeBSD_64 –register VBoxManage modifyvm openproject –memory 2048 –ioapic on –cpus 4 –chipset PIIX3 –nic1 bridged –nictype1 82540EM –bridgeadapter1 bge0 VBoxManage createhd –filename[…]

WordPress Rewrite URL

Been ripping my hair out trying to keep my blogpost links alive after porting to WP from flask… needed to transform my URLs to lower and swap underscores.. After a few overnights scrambling together code with no luck (I am behind nginx, and could prolly do it there).. but VX in #wordpress on freenode helped[…]

OpenVPN on APU1D4

My process / notes are below, I was trying to determine best OpenVPN config for APU1D4. Notes and process are below, but I landed on AES-256-CBC, SHA-256, DH 2048 with RSA HW Acceleration. The OS is pfSense 2.2-RELEASE amd64. With the above settings, from host to host, I saw large file transfer speeds of 1.5-4.3[…]