[00:29] Not saying it's gone away, my experience has been very few people I know have had it. I had it last November. I've been on airplanes, concert halls, crowded bars, restaurants, etc. I have been expecting to get it again, I've not been masking up since the restrictions were dropped. [00:29] I really expected to have it at least two, maybe three times by now. [00:37] whether you get it multiple times is very much pot luck as to which variant you got, and what your immune system decides to do about it [00:40] One of my buddies has got almost every variant.. gotta catch 'em all :) [00:40] (yes, I realize I used a pokemon reference) [00:41] nod [11:59] don't forget that masking isn't about protecting YOU, it's about protecting OTHERS FROM YOU [12:10] depends on the mask, but yeah [13:20] morning campers [13:20] * penguin42 yawns [13:21] ooh this virtual disk converter program, StarWind, is saving my bacon... it's helping me convert the second dental practice's Hyper-V VM to a format that XCP-ng is happy to read - whilst also reducing the size properly to that of used-space versus empty [13:22] D: was a 400 GB VHD -> 210 GB now [13:29] I *think* qemu-img can do that disk convert [13:31] ah well, 99% of the task is getting them to a system with enough storage and then the long and slow copy via SFTP to my XCP-ng host [13:32] i should probably treat myself to a larger mechanical disk for my office desktop in the upcoming sales [13:35] so where do you run XCP-ng? [13:36] my testbed at home is the Dell PowerEdge T430 i have, it runs downstairs in my lounge to spare my ears :D [13:36] oops T420 - it's the dentists that have the T430 [13:36] how have you made a t430 loud?! [13:36] 2 [13:36] oh, dell [13:37] :D [13:37] sorry, I misread that as a Thinkpad T4x0 [13:37] dual Xeon sandybridge era [13:37] hehe yeah it is a conflicting model [13:42] i've got this thing on a 1TB M.2 PCIe SSD in there, it's running really nicely [13:51] good fast SSDs are nice; Sandybridge is a bit slow though [13:52] yeah, just having a spare host will be great for the conversion [13:52] it'll let me slide their server over onto other metal whilst i wipe their current server for XCP-ng as well [13:53] nod [14:11] servers are a bit quirky on the firmware front i find, i always find them set to their "performance" profiles but the ones i have worked with, i set them to custom and changed a bunch of settings to allow them to drop power consumption [14:12] their one doesn't seem to boost the CPU up to turbo clocks at all, which is a shame [14:28] check for any thermal/power limits set? [14:29] i haven't even changed away from the 'performance' setting yet, didn't want to mess with what was working whilst it remains in its' present setup [14:29] although i did spend my first weekend doing a mammoth firmware update session, even booted the ISO of updates from home over the VPN :D [14:30] how do you find xcp, I dont know any other users - it's basically the current commercial Xen isnt it? [14:32] nah it's a fully open fork by Vates, a French company [14:32] i think it's really going places, some really exciting stuff coming - which admittedly seems to already be in place in stuff like Proxmox (specifically vTPM support) [14:33] my main gripe is that if i use thin provisioned storage, in order to allow backups to be nice and quick, VHDs grow quite a lot from disk writes as there's no sort of trim mechanism to pass deletes through to the disk layer [14:33] that'll change with a new storage API that's coming though [14:36] ah, yes I was chatting to someone from Vates the other day === knightwi2e is now known as knightwise [23:35] bleh, it's only 6:30pm and it feels like it's 9:30pm. i wish we just kept daylight savings [23:36] mmm the ol' dark by 5 sucks