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I just got a new Frankenstein computer with a phenom x3 processor a couple gigs of ram and a tera-byte hard disk. My usage for this computer is to try out virtualization with Ubuntu 10.
The computer itself was delivered on Thursday, however I had to wait until Friday to finish assembling it, as the cpu fan was delivered separate. By Saturday I had a base system install and two virtual machines running. However I accidentally deleted the image files that it was using for virtual hard drives, so I started over again on Sunday. Lesson learned, *.img isn't just some silly pictures to be removed.
My thinking for the virtualization is to create several 'virtual appliances' The first two that I created are a web server, and an internal DNS/DHCP host. I have in mind a few more for a NAS server, and a few desktop hosts to play with different desktop styles and remixes. Sunday I got the first two virtual machines working again, but I still have some tweaking to do. My plan is to move all important stuff off my current internal server 'pal' so that I can reinstall him as a back up virtual host. So I have to move all my sites, and my email to the virtual machine before that can happen.
It's dinner time now, I'll finish up with some details later tonight or tomorrow.
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