For a long time I've used VMWare Workstation at home, even though I'd bought an x64 machine just for vms. Lame, right? C'est la vie. I'd originally though I should install a hypervisor OS (ESXi, Xen) instead of the VistaBusiness I did install, but then got bored, put on VBx64 and was done with it. Yesterday, I figured I'd look again at VMWare Server 2.01 (ESXi's free now, too, go figure).
Didn't take too long to uninstall VMWare workstation (via the console with the -c option) and install VMWare Server and now I have remote access to my newly headless x64 VMWare server. Looks and works great! The only thing I miss is being able to edit the virtual networks in the interface (which was done in Workstation's) - I have to login (remote desktop) into the box to do that. Ah, tradeoffs. I get much better info on the running vms themselves - cpu and ram usages.
I upgraded my Fedora Core 9 image to 10 (yes, I know 11's out in 12 days) and stuck irssi, screen, fah, and openldap on it and for a paltry 256mb (only using 128mb), I have a little unix testbed that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.
I know summer's here already, but this is my spring cleaning, al Gore.
Amazon has released
Swine Flu Influenza Virus genomic sequences on their Public Data Sets. Now anyone with an Amazon machine image in the cloud can attach to it and use it for research and sequencing. Time to dust off phrap and phred? (dating myself)
Impressive.