I have finally moved off all the hosted virtual machines from Cyndi’s mac-mini over to an older unused computer running Solaris 11.1.  I figured I might as well work on keeping up with some Solaris skillz in some form or another just in case.   I had a little trouble copying over the vmdk/vdi files from one host to another which was unexpected.  I tried using a USB drive but the only filesystem on Solaris by default that is readable by OS X is fat32 and that unfortunately had a 4gb filesize limit.  I then tried to ssh the files over (after plugging in a cat 5 to the mac so it wasn’t over wireless) but even that didn’t work due to some kind of communication error over ssh.  I then tried to set up nfs and just could not get anything talking properly.  Finally I ended up using wget+ftp and transferred the files over while watching a movie and folding laundry.   Whew!

I’ve also updated the webserver to the latest and greatest version of Gentoo with a completely clean emerge as part of the migration and that wasn’t as painful as I thought it would be.  I had been working on a Gentoo template for a while now and keeping it up to date.  I installed fresh versions of all the applications I could think of that would be needed on the new webserver and left off stuff that I know I’ve installed but never used so hopefully that keeps it nice and clean.  Luckily, I had moved all the “important” web directories to their own filesystems/disks a while back so just assigning the vmdk files from one host to another was all it took.  Yay!

I look forward to playing with zfs and zones on the Solaris box and continuing to update my Gentoo virtual machine template for future fun and excitement!

-v-. out.

P.S. If you don’t care about any of that stuff above then its unfortunate for you that you’re already finished. If you’re hoping to read an apology here then you’re doubly screwed.