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.

Note: This page is outdated (8/30/2023)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.

I wanted to take a moment to document this computer a little before I start swapping parts and moving things around.

Story Time

A local seller was selling a whitelabel beige box Pentium 166 by Microlex. (post to come) Having followed them on social media for a bit, they often encouraged people to just toss out a bid on things they may want. Try not to be offensively low and prepare yourself to hear “No. Thanks.”, but if you want it, “lets make a deal.” So I did. This Dell Dimension 466v was also in their storage locker, so I offered to take it ‘as is’ for a nominal price on top of what I asked for the Microlex P166. This freed up space, got them cash today, and if it turned out it was a rusty box rocks, then that’d be my box of rocks to deal with. 😄

Story Time!

So this trip down the retro rabbit hole takes us back to 1996’ish. Quake has been released and proceeded to consume unknown countless hours of my CPU and GPU cycles.

The Quake Shareware CD-ROM was interesting in that in addition to the shareware/demo release, it included the full version of the game in addition to the rest of ID’s catalog at the time. Another feature of the Quake CD (like many 90’s games) is that they were pressed as mix-mode CDs and supplied the soundtrack through traditional CD audio encoding as which you could play through your traditional Audio CD player. The soundtrack, and I believe sound effects, were created by Trent Reznor & Nine Inch Nails.