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diff --git a/public/software/index.html b/public/software/index.html deleted file mode 100644 index af8c330..0000000 --- a/public/software/index.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,40 +0,0 @@ -<!DOCTYPE html> -<html> -<head> -<meta charset="utf-8"> -<title> - Prefetch | Software -</title> -<link rel="stylesheet" href="/main.css"> -</head> -<body> -<div class="navbar"> -<div class="navitem navhome"><b><a href="/">PREFETCH</a></b></div> - -<div class="navitem"><a href="/articles/">Articles </a></div> - -<div class="navitem"><a href="/software/">Software</a></div> - -<div class="navitem"><a href="/sheats/">Sheats</a></div> - -</div> -<hr> -<div class="content"> - - <p>Software made by me:</p> -<ul> -<li><a href="https://prefet.ch/software/winvm.sh">winvm.sh</a>: a QEMU-launching shell script -I used to emulate Windows for gaming. Since -<a href="https://www.mesa3d.org/">Mesa</a> has matured so much and -<a href="https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/">Proton</a> -is in great shape, I won't update it anymore.</li> -<li>More coming soon!</li> -</ul> -<p>Apart from that, here's a <a href="/software/recommended">list</a> of software I recommend.</p> - - -</div> -<hr> -© "Prefetch". Licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>. -</body> -</html> diff --git a/public/software/recommended/index.html b/public/software/recommended/index.html deleted file mode 100644 index 6e16413..0000000 --- a/public/software/recommended/index.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,107 +0,0 @@ -<!DOCTYPE html> -<html> -<head> -<meta charset="utf-8"> -<title> - Prefetch | Recommended software -</title> -<link rel="stylesheet" href="/main.css"> -</head> -<body> -<div class="navbar"> -<div class="navitem navhome"><b><a href="/">PREFETCH</a></b></div> - -<div class="navitem"><a href="/articles/">Articles </a></div> - -<div class="navitem"><a href="/software/">Software</a></div> - -<div class="navitem"><a href="/sheats/">Sheats</a></div> - -</div> -<hr> -<div class="content"> - - <center><h3> Recommended software </h3></center> - <ul> -<li><a href="https://www.archlinux.org/">Arch Linux</a>, -the no-nonsense Linux distribution. It's not perfect, -but it has the best reward-to-effort ratio for me. -Mainly its spectacular wealth of available packages -(11000 main + 53000 AUR!) make it the king.</li> -<li><a href="https://alpinelinux.org/">Alpine Linux</a>, -the featherlight distribution powering this server.</li> -<li><a href="https://voidlinux.org/">Void Linux</a>, -another nice lightweight distribution. It has -a great package management system with good -support for both binary packages and -<a href="https://gentoo.org/">Gentoo</a>-style -customizable source builds.</li> -<li><a href="https://i3wm.org/">i3</a>, a mature, lightweight, -responsive tiling window manager without all the fuss. -I'll move to its successor-in-progress -<a href="https://swaywm.org/">Sway</a> as soon as I find it mature enough.</li> -<li><a href="https://neovim.io/">Neovim</a>, which I use instead of its -venerable ancestor <a href="https://www.vim.org/">Vim</a> because -it's faster, cleaner, and more future-facing -(<a href="https://geoff.greer.fm/2015/01/15/why-neovim-is-better-than-vim/">source</a>). -With plugins, of course: -<ul> -<li><a href="https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug">vim-plug</a> -for simple and effective plugin management.</li> -<li><a href="https://github.com/wincent/terminus">terminus</a> -to noticeably improve integration with the window manager.</li> -<li><a href="https://github.com/joshdick/onedark.vim">onedark.vim</a>, -because it looks great and is easy on the eyes.</li> -<li><a href="https://github.com/itchyny/lightline.vim">lightline.vim</a> -for no real reason. Just eye candy I guess.</li> -<li><a href="https://github.com/sheerun/vim-polyglot">vim-polyglot</a>, -because its syntax definitions are much better.</li> -<li><a href="https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak">vim-sneak</a> -to make movement less of a hassle.</li> -</ul> -</li> -<li><a href="https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty">Alacritty</a> as terminal emulator, -for its speed, minimalism, ease to configure, and native Wayland support. -I used to use <a href="https://st.suckless.org/">st</a>, -but it was too annoying to reconfigure.</li> -<li><a href="https://github.com/eXeC64/imv">imv</a>, -a command-line image viewer that I've found to be -much simpler and snappier than its more popular cousin -<a href="https://feh.finalrewind.org/">feh</a>.</li> -<li><a href="https://git.pwmt.org/pwmt/zathura">zathura</a>, -a fantastic modular viewer for PDFs and similar formats. -It remembers your position in a document after closing or reloading, -which is great when using LaTeX, and the main reason -I prefer it over <a href="https://mupdf.com/">MuPDF</a>.</li> -<li><a href="https://mpv.io/">mpv</a>, a great terminal-friendly media player. -If you have <a href="https://youtube-dl.org/">youtube-dl</a> installed -you can watch videos you would otherwise need a web browser for.</li> -<li><a href="https://nginx.org/">nginx</a>, -the most popular HTTP server in the world. -And for good reason: it's lightweight, fast, secure, -flexible and straightforward to configure.</li> -<li><a href="https://www.getzola.org/">Zola</a> to generate static webpages, -including the one you're reading right now.</li> -<li><a href="https://www.qemu.org/">QEMU</a>, -the Swiss army knife of emulation, and a damn fast one at that, -albeit with absolutely terrible documentation. -My old Windows launch script is <a href="../winvm.sh">here</a>.</li> -<li>The <a href="https://www.musl-libc.org/">musl</a> C standard library, -the only one that remembers it's supposed to stick to the -official specification rather than pursuing every crazy idea.</li> -<li><a href="https://busybox.net/">BusyBox</a> bundles the -most important Unix tools into one portable ELF.</li> -<li><a href="https://skarnet.org/software/s6/">s6</a>, -a nice Unix service manager and init system. -I used it in my now long-abandoned -<a href="http://linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/index.html">LFS</a> installation.</li> -<li><a href="https://man.openbsd.org/doas">doas</a>, -sudo for the 21st century, this time actually configurable.</li> -</ul> - - -</div> -<hr> -© "Prefetch". Licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>. -</body> -</html> diff --git a/public/software/winvm.sh b/public/software/winvm.sh deleted file mode 100644 index 09283e0..0000000 --- a/public/software/winvm.sh +++ /dev/null @@ -1,144 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/sh - - -# This is the script I used to use to launch QEMU, emulating -# Windows 8 with direct physical access to a powerful GPU -# and the Intel audio controller. This isn't a complete guide, -# more a collection of tips for any other brave people mad -# enough to try this. Look up "{VFIO,VGA,GPU,PCI} passthrough" -# if you want to get proper guidance for this. - -# This was working on QEMU 2.12, but note that I'm not updating it anymore. - - -# Create hugepage FS. Don't forget to actually populate it -# with available RAM using kernel boot arguments or sysctl. -# The user you run QEMU under (not root!) must be in the kvm group. -sudo mkdir /dev/hugepages -sudo mount -t hugetlbfs hugetlbfs /dev/hugepages -sudo chown root:kvm /dev/hugepages -sudo chmod 1777 /dev/hugepages # Necessary apparently - - -# The block devices you use for the VM are up to you; -# mine are at /dev/mapper/win{dows,data}. -# I recommend refreshing udev after you've created them: -udevadm trigger - - -### USEFUL KERNEL ARGUMENTS -# intel_iommu=on : VFIO won't work otherwise. I don't have an AMD CPU, -# but there should be a similar option for that. -# vfio-pci.ids=XXXX:YYYY,.. : Only available if VFIO is built into the kernel -# (requires custom kernel build). Reserves devices at boot. -# hugepages=X hugepagesz=Y : Create X hugepages at boot of size Y ("2M" or "1G"). -# nohugeiomap : This fixed something, but I can't remember what. -# intremap=no_x2apic_optout : Some UEFIs don't support the x2apic and disable it. -# This force-enables it. Had no negative consequences for me. -# pci=pcie_bus_peer2peer : This was the silver bullet for me, but YMMV. -# isolcpus=X-Y nohz_full=X-Y rcu_nocbs=X-Y : You MUST use CPU pinning if you add this. -# X-Y is an inclusive range of CPU cores to -# to reserve for the vCPUs. - - -### MACHINE OPTIONS -QEMU="-name debug-threads=on -enable-kvm -machine q35,accel=kvm,kernel_irqchip=on,vmport=off,mem-merge=off" -# -debug-threads=on : name the vCPU threads, useful for CPU pinning. -# -enable-kvm : enable KVM acceleration. -# -machine q35 : emulate the Q35 chipset, which is closer to a modern PC. -# accel=kvm : probably identical to -enable-kvm, but just in case. -# kernel_irqchip=on : emulate an IRQ chip in the kernel instead of in QEMU. -# vmport=off : don't emulate a VMWare I/O port. -# mem-merge=off : disable KSM, since there is only one VM. - -### CPU OPTIONS -QEMU="$QEMU -cpu host,kvm=off,hv_time,hv_relaxed,hv_spinlocks=0x1fff,hv_vpindex,hv_reset,hv_runtime,hv_crash,hv_vendor_id=NvidiaFix" -# -cpu host : use the host CPU instead of emulating one. -# kvm=off : don't declare self as KVM to the guest, as Windows doesn't care. -# hv_* : pretend to be Hyper-V, so Windows can optimize itself for running as a guest. -# https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/comments/479xnx/guests_with_nvidia_gpus_can_enable_hyperv/ -QEMU="$QEMU -smp sockets=1,cores=4,threads=1" -# -smp ... : processor layout to emulate. - -### RAM OPTIONS -QEMU="$QEMU -m 12G -mem-path /dev/hugepages -mem-prealloc" -# -m x : amount of guest RAM. -# -mem-path ... : allocate memory from this pool. Can be a file or "hugepages" (mount -t hugetlbfs). -# -mem-prealloc : allocate all memory from -mem-path at startup rather than on demand. - -### EMULATION OPTIONS -QEMU="$QEMU -vga none -nodefaults -rtc base=utc,clock=host,driftfix=none" -# -vga none : don't emulate a graphics card, since we're using a physical one. -# -nodefaults : don't emulate any of the default devices. -# -rtc base=utc : emulate an RTC starting at host's local time. -# clock=host : use the host's accurate clock for VM timekeeping. -# driftfix=none : don't fix Windows' clock drifting, as that involves injecting interrupts. -QEMU="$QEMU -drive if=pflash,format=raw,file=/usr/share/edk2-ovmf/OVMF_CODE.fd,readonly" -QEMU="$QEMU -drive if=pflash,format=raw,file=/usr/share/edk2-ovmf/OVMF_VARS.fd" -# These options enable using the OVMF virtual UEFI instead of SeaBIOS. -# The exact file locations might vary; this is for Gentoo. - -### PCI PASSTHROUGH -QEMU="$QEMU -device ioh3420,chassis=1,port=1,multifunction=on,bus=pcie.0,addr=1c.0,id=pcie.1" -# -device ioh3420 : emulate a PCIe I/O hub to attach the GPU to. -# chassis=1,port=1 : ? -# bus=pcie.0,addr=1c.0 : place it at 00:1c.0 on the guest. -# id=pcie.1 : refer to this device as "pcie.1" below. -QEMU="$QEMU -device vfio-pci,host=04:00.0,multifunction=on,bus=pcie.1,addr=00.0" -# GPU VGA controller. -# multifunction=on : this device isn't just a VGA controller. -# bus=pcie.1,addr=00.0 : attach it to the I/O hub as function 0. -QEMU="$QEMU -device vfio-pci,host=04:00.1,bus=pcie.1,addr=00.1" -# GPU HDMI audio controller. -# bus=pcie.1,addr=00.1 : attach it to the I/O hub as function 1. -QEMU="$QEMU -device vfio-pci,host=00:1b.0,bus=pcie.0,addr=1b.0" -# Intel HDA audio controller. -# bus=pcie.0,addr=1b.0 : place the device where Intel usually puts its HDA controller. - -#QEMU="$QEMU -device intel-iommu,intremap=on" -# Expose the IOMMU to the guest too. Probably useless in this case. - -### USB PASSTHROUGH -QEMU="$QEMU -usb" -# Enable USB support. -QEMU="$QEMU -device usb-host,vendorid=0xXXXX,productid=0xYYYY" -# If one of these can't be found, it's simply ignored. Use lsusb to find the IDs. - -### STORAGE OPTIONS -QEMU="$QEMU -drive if=ide,format=raw,discard=unmap,detect-zeroes=unmap,file=/dev/mapper/windows" -QEMU="$QEMU -drive if=ide,format=raw,discard=unmap,detect-zeroes=unmap,file=/dev/mapper/windata" -# if=ide : emulate an IDE (SATA) drive. NVMe is possible too, but more of a hassle. -# format=raw : talk directly to the drive. Take care: your guest GPT might end up inside a partition. -# discard=unmap,detect-zeroes=unmap : send discards to the physical device if the guest asks for it. -# file=x : backing physical block device. - -#QEMU="$QEMU -cdrom ~/Windows.iso" -# For recovery purposes. I strongly recommend keeping the ISO around. - -### NETWORK OPTIONS -QEMU="$QEMU -netdev user,id=usermode" -# -netdev user : emulate a user-mode NIC, which is more than fast enough in my experience. -# id=usermode : call the interface "usermode" -QEMU="$QEMU -device e1000,netdev=usermode,mac=88:88:88:88:88:88,bus=pcie.0,addr=19.0" -# -device e1000 : emulate a gigabit ethernet device. -# netdev=usermode : use "usermode" as the host backend. -# mac=x : set the MAC address as seen by the guest. -# bus=pcie.0,addr=19.0 : place the device where Intel usually puts its NIC. - - -# GERONIMO! -qemu-system-x86_64 $QEMU -daemonize -# -daemonize : fork once the VM has been initialized. - -QEMU_PID=`pidof qemu-system-x86_64` -echo -e "\033[37;1mQEMU started at PID $QEMU_PID, emulating Windows in Hyper-V mode.\033[m" - -sleep 2 # Make sure the VM threads have been spawned. - -# Move kernel processes to the housekeeping core (core 0 here). -#echo 00001 > /sys/bus/workqueue/devices/writeback/cpumask -#echo 00001 > /sys/bus/workqueue/devices/nvme-wq/cpumask - -# Do CPU pinning using "taskset -pc X Y" here, -# using /proc/$QEMU_PID/task/*/stat to find the thread name. -# Sorry, my old script for this was so horrible that I don't want to share it. |