PCI Pass-through: NVIDIA Tesla L4

1. Why PCI Pass-through? The primary goal is to use the Tesla L4/P4 at 100% capacity within a Virtual Machine for high-speed document parsing/inference without the complexity of vGPU. 2. Host Configuration We isolate the GPU hardware, so the Guest VM can claim it exclusively. Identify the Hardware Kernel & GRUB Setup We use the … Read more

Management Server for Home Lab

In a home lab that also serves as an R&D environment, frequent rebuilds, upgrades, and full reinstall cycles are inevitable. To avoid losing critical documentation, Docker repositories, source code, and other persistent assets, I decided to dedicate one physical server exclusively for management. This system now hosts all essential services and a lightweight K3s cluster … Read more