Our kickass setup will allow us to do a series of cool things related to daily development operations:

Two Factor Authentication
PAM Authentication (logging into your linux/mac PC)
GPG mail and GIT commit signing/encrypting
SSH Authentication

In this post we’ll look at a few ways of customizing tmux and vim to help get more done with less typing and context switching.

WRT1900ACS

The LEDE Project (“Linux Embedded Development Environment”) is a Linux operating system based on OpenWrt. It is a complete replacement for the vendor-supplied firmware of a wide range of wireless routers and non-network devices.

Convert VMDKs (VM's disk), even when having multiple files, to qcow2 format (note: QVM/QEMU should be able to deal with vmdk files (multiple as well?), so possibly this step is redundant):

qemu-img convert <vmdk wildcard> <qcow2 file>

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qemu-img convert <vmdk wildcard> <qcow2 file>

Convert the vmx (VM's settings) to xml (requires vmware2libvirt tool found in virt-goodies package)

vmware2libvirt -f <source.vmx> > target.xml

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vmware2libvirt -f <source.vmx> > target.xml

import the xml:

virsh -c qemu:///system define file.xml

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virsh -c qemu:///system define file.xml

The Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) topic contains information about using KVM on IBM® systems

You can store virtual disk images in a location other than the /var/lib/libvirt/images directory.
The following information applies to KVM environments that are running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 or 6.
To store virtual disk images in a customized location, complete the following steps:

When I ask people to picture a coder, they usually imagine someone like Mark Zuckerberg: a hoodied college dropout who builds an app in a feverish 72-hour programming jag—with the goal of getting insanely rich and, as they say, “changing the world.”

But this Silicon Valley stereotype isn’t even geographically accurate. The Valley employs only 8 percent of the nation’s coders. All the other millions? They’re more like Devon, a programmer I met who helps maintain a ­security-software service in Portland, Oregon. He isn’t going to get fabulously rich, but his job is stable and rewarding: It’s 40 hours a week, well paid, and intellectually challenging. “My dad was a blue-­collar guy,” he tells me—and in many ways, Devon is too.