Whoah, sorry to hear you had to do all that work! And thanks!

Bill.

2009/10/2 William Stein <[email protected]>:
>
> 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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