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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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Windows 11 GA Instant Clone Lab with unsupported hardware workaround \ test deploy

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 Windows 11 has finally GA'ed so now its time to do some testing. If you don't have the required hardware no problem, we can apply some work arounds. In our Setup we will be using the following Setup Horizon 8 vSphere 7.0U3 Windows 11 GA First download the Windows 11 ISO, put it on a datastore Create a new VM for the parent VM. I chose Windows 10 as the Guest OS Confirm that Secure Boot is enabled And left everything as Default Now Console into your VM and power it on, Once you get to the  'Windows Setup' screen press Shift +F10 This will bring up a command prompt, from here type regedit and hit enter From this point navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup Right-click on Setup key and select New -> Key option.  Name it LabConfig  Select LabConfig key and then create the following 3 new DWORDs and set their values to 1 to bypass or disable TPM 2.0, Secure Boot and RAM amount checks BypassTPMCheck BypassSecureBootCheck BypassRAMCheck Close regedit, and the comma...
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