Hi,

After being rock solid for 9 months, the VMware server crashed badly
on boxen.math.washington.edu, and we absolutely could not get it to
work despite repeated clean reinstalls, reboots, etc.      Repeatedly
tempted by things appearing to work, I tried to migrate the virtual
infrastructure to VirtualBox, but after many hours of work major
performance issues made this impossible for now (though I hold out
hope) -- something about my hardware setup or VirtualBox makes it
completely unusable.

Fortunately, I was able to get VMware server installed on
mod.math.washington.edu, and get the virtual servers back online.  I
had to change the DNS entries for everything to point to
mod.math.washington.edu (128.208.160.198) instead of
boxen.math.washington.edu (128.208.160.197).   As the DNS propagates,
you should see all relevant web pages come back and work exactly as
before the crash (no data was lost).

If you are one of the people that works on sagemath (e.g., to maintain
the cython, sagemath, mpir, etc.) webpage, the main change for now is
that you login to mod.math.washington.edu instead of
boxen.math.washington.edu before connecting to sagemath.   (This is
temporary.)

William

-- 
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org
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