When using IKEv2 or any other VPN on Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, macOS) with the OnDemand feature, the VPN will automatically connect under specified conditions, such as when your device connects to WiFi or cellular networks. However, there are certain situations where you might not want the VPN to connect automatically—for example, if you’re connected […]
The 2009 Apple Xserve, also known as the Xserve 3,1 (XS3,1), never supported the Intel Westmere Xeon family. However, the 2010 Mac Pro, Mac Pro 5,1 (MP5,1), did. Since their logic boards are similar, you can flash your XS3,1 with the MP5,1 firmware. This will enable you to use 6-core Westmere Xeons and after the
TL;DR: The issue is likely that the EFI for VMWare isn’t finding the Boot.EFI file. You just need to tell it where it is. Scroll to bottom of article for instructions. I have an old Xserve with ESXi 6.5 on it that I got Monterey running on, however when I used Nakivo to make backups
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TL;DR: The Google Wifi router won’t forward consistently unless the target uses DHCP I recently moved to a standalone linux server for my VPN and set it up with a static IP. I was able to setup port forwarding on my Google Wifi, but it was completely hit or miss on if I would get
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TL;DR: You can’t upgrade. Do a clean install with EFI ( it will do bios by default) and enable secure boot for efi. Boot from the Windows 11 ISO and use the BypassSecureBootCheck and BypassTPMCheck registry settings. Then install as normal. I have a Windows 10 VM on my Xserve 3,1 running ESXi 6.5 that
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Although the xserve is well past its prime I still have a couple that I use as part of my dev and lab environment. Although I don’t have a true need for production level uptime I do like to have it mirror a production level environment. As part of that I recently started playing with
Let me start by saying that VMWare does not officially support this and as far as I can tell they don’t necessarily want you to do it. So don’t expect to get support from them on this. However, with the fact that vSphere 6.5 is now old news chances are if you are here that
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TLDL: You appear to need BOTH samba and avahi installed with just the right magic in your config files or MacOS freaks out and finder stops responding till you do a hard shutdown of the machine. Shame on Apple big time for the way finder handles it! Config file info is below! When Since at
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TL;DR: You need to boot the vm then run sudo nvram boot-args=”-nehalem_error_disable” to disable the ECC memory check, then you can edit the .vmx file and add the hw.model, board-id and serialNumber to it. The Apple Xserve is already end of life, but as anyone that still has one will tell you it is still
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For specifics related to the Apple Xserve click here and look under Power Policy Although there is no new version of network shutdown for Mac if you have a Mac and want to be able to have it shut down and come back on this article is for you. In my initial testing I was
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