On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 12:03 AM, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Robert Bradshaw > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Oct 1, 1:29 pm, Jason Grout <[email protected]> wrote: >>> William Stein wrote: >>> > Hi, >>> >>> > I just started one instance of virtualbox on >>> > boxen.math.washington.edu... which had the effect of completely >>> > crashes >>> > *all* theVMwarevirtual machines running on that machine. I'm >>> > working on rebooting boxen.math right now. With >>> > a lot of luck everything will be back within 30 minutes. >>> >>> You can follow the play-by-play live-action drama on Sage IRC >>> (irc.freenode.net, #sage-devel) >> >> Anymore news on this front? Everything formerly hosted on sagemath >> seems to be down (trac, wiki, hg repo, all the subprojects...), and >> when I log into sagemath from boxen my account is gone. >> >> I assume you're working still looking into this? >> > > Vmware is completely hosed on that machine and > upgrading/reinstalling/etc. doesn't help at all. It just doesn't > work. And given the closed source nature of vmware (which means that > often the online support sucks) there is basically nothing to do about > it. Why? The Ubuntu operating system has been upgrading a bit since > vmware was installed... and vmware server -- a free closed source > product -- can be very finicky. > > So I created some new virtualbox virtual machines, since virtualbox > does work on boxen.math. This was surprisingly painful. Anyways, I'm > currently transferring the data from the old virtual machines's disks > to the new ones, at which time I'll be able to restart them. This > could take many hours, because VirtualBox reads vmware disks very > slowly.
I just want to add that even this really sucks. Using virtualbox to read from vmware disks is not fun: It's fast, then slow, then randomly just totally hangs and one has to reboot the virtual machine, etc. William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
