Hello world. This is my attempt at creating a personally hosted space for sharing content. It’ll likely be tech related around “retro computing” or quirky tidbits I learn through work.
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Recent Articles
Locked Out of Xen Orchestra
To change a network - It’s just a foot gun drop down, how hard can it be?
story time
In testing the VMware to Vates (V2V) machinery in XCP-ng with Xen Orchestra, I found that the imports were taking longer than I had expected or hoped. In searching the web for others with similar experiences, I found a forum thread where someone highlighted that traffic for the import goes from your ESXi host, through Xen Orchestra, then to your XCP-ng host & relevant Storage Repository. In order to set this process up for success, you’ll want to have maximum performance available for all network paths involved.
Linux, Intel Arc, and Stable Diffusion
Note: This page is outdated (8/30/2023)
Getting started
Getting Stable Diffusion running with an Intel Arc is (currently) a bit difficult and quirky, but it’s come a long way very quickly. (Unless you think this should have all been baked before relasing the product, but I feel that’s a bit unreasonable.) A lot of Linux tooling for the Intel Arc has been oriented around Ubuntu. However, it is possible to get it running with Fedora 38. This page will be a bit of a cheat sheet, and not really refined into a walkthrough at this time.