At long last, success

Pal has been moved, kitchen sink and all, to Phantom.  I'm writing this from my new Ubuntu desktop 'Art' which has inhabited Pal's old body.  The transfer went smoothly, I had to change real Pal's IP address temporarily so that I could use it as a virtual machine console for virtual Pal without sucking down new mail from servy.  The issue I had last time with virtual Pal's IP address being assigned, was that when creating the virtual machine, it created a new virtual ethernet device called eth1 and set it from the DHCP server.  Once I had virtual Pal running I simply had to adjust the network settings to use the original IP address, and now virtual Pal is doing everything that real Pal did.

I rebooted Phantom, just to make sure that everything comes up correctly, and turned off real Pal.  After check that all of Pal's services were running inside of Phantom (with a little bit of disk swapping) I breathed a sigh of relief, and started in at creating my new desktop computer: art.

I got a couple giga-bit network cards yesterday as I try to upgrade all of my network.  Unfortunately when I opened up Pal's old body to stick in the card, I discovered that it didn't have any PCI slots.  So I guess I'm stuck with the on-board 100mb nic.  I'm half toying with the idea of getting another bare-bones to act as my backup virtual host/cloud hub.  But that's probably another couple paychecks away.  I put the computer back together, and installed Art as a Ubuntu 10.10 desktop.

Next I'm going to install virtual manager on Art, so that I can access virtual Pal via a virtual console.  I may try to migrate Cloudy over to Art as well, to take some of the load off of Phantom until I can get more memory.  And at some point I will need to stick this giga-bit network card in Phantom, and reconfigure Servy to use his faster nic (I don't know why I set him up on the slower one), then see how fast I can transfer files to see if it truly is giga-bit.  Having two virtual hosts and transferring entire virtual guests from one to the other will definitely need the speed.

I'll take a break from this in the afternoon, when I go up to Seattle to hear Tchaikovsky's first piano concerto.  Then tonight, some power leveling on Wow in anticipation of cataclysm which comes out in December.  Probably no more tinkering with the network until next weekend.