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How to get llama 2 up and running , in a VM, with no GPU, and limited memory on Ubuntu

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OK I decided to write this up after unsuccessfully being able to find all the required info I needed in one place. In this setup we will be using Ubuntu Server 22.04.2 LTS as the OS. I have this running on a home lab ESXi server 8, on a HP Compaq Pro 6300 SFF CPU = Intel Core i7-3770 Installed Memory 16 GB I have some 10K SAS drives installed for the VM's If you have not already, navigate to  Get Ubuntu Server | Download | Ubuntu and download the 22.04.2 LTS ISO Next Lets create our VM that we are going to run this in. *Note Im using ESXi however you can probably do this in Workstation, Fusion, VirtualBox etc The main things to note on the VM creation. Set Ubuntu 64 bit as the guest OS Set your CPU relevant to the physicals CPU, I will be starting with 4 VCPU Set your Memory to as much as you can tolerate, I will be using 12 Disk Space - we are creating a 100G swap file, and the rest of the file can take up some room , so more is better if you can afford it Dont forget to add the U...
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WMI Query VMware View Agent Variables

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The purpose of this post is to show how you can query the "Volatile Environment" variables from the View agent to get WMI information. I though I would share what I have done to maybe help others in similar situations. Requirements: The requirements for this view environment is to allow client drive redirection for internal users and disable it for external users. The users are always in the same pool, and in this case we only have one connection server and one security server. Because this is a feature that is either on or off and no built in way to control this, the thought is that we can create a GPO that and run off a WMI query to determine if the users are inside the network or outside of the network and disable client drive redirection based on the IP. Lets Filter! So we can create a simple GPO to disable CDR , however we do not want this to happen internally so we need something to query off of. It would seam this would be an easy task however I ran into the f...
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