On Oct 2, 2009, at 12:06 AM, William Stein wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 12:03 AM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Robert Bradshaw >> <rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote: >>> >>> On Oct 1, 1:29 pm, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> 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.
Thanks for the update--I'm sorry for all your pain. You've probably already thought of this, but perhaps you could copy the images to some computer that does have a working vmware, and use scp/rsync to get the need files out (though this wouldn't give you an image, and I'm not sure how much data we're talking here). Of course then you'd have a network bottleneck. Sounds like a mess, hopefully VirtualBox will be less painful once we're actually on it. - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
