1. download (MergeIDE unzip it and run it on the vmware instance you want to move.

2. uninstall the vmware tools.

3. save all your network settings. run:

ipconfig /all > network.txt

netstat -rn >> netstat.txt

4. on the XenServer, create a new windows VM with the same CPU/Memory/Disk Size specs as your vmware VM

5. get rid of any snapshots you had made for the vmware instance.

6. depending on what form of vmware you are running (workstation/server/esxi/esx) you might have to convert the disk image using something like vmware-vdiskmanager (which comes with all the vmware products):

vmware-vdiskmanager -r vmware_image.vmdk -t 0 temporary_image.vmdk

if you arnt sure if you need to convert the disk, it doesnt hurt to convert it anyway. You just might waste time and disk space. If you are using esxi, you don’t need to convert the disk.

7. assuming you have access to the vmware .vdk disk image, run this from a linux box:

qemu-img convert ./name_of_source_vmdk_file.vmdk VM_Instance_Name.img

8. you need to access the new converted disk image from the XenServer, so put it on an NFS mount or something.

9. First figure out the UUID of the disk image you created when you created the new xen instance. Its much easier if you go into the XenCenter GUI and go to the instance you created, and rename the disk something useful.

Then you can ssh into the XenServer and type:

xe vdi-list  name-label=whatever_you_named_the_disk

copy down the UUID of the disk image.

Then run:

xe vdi-import uuid=uuid_of_disk filename=name_OF_SOURCE_DISK_IMAGE.img

after a while, you get dropped back to the prompt, and you can fire up the XenServer instance.

A leading Beverly Hills cosmetic surgeon claims to be saving the planet by using fat removed from clients in liposuction operations to power his 4×4 car.

cosmetic surgeon powered his 4×4 on people fat

• drive 34,000 miles a year
• will spend around $4100 on gas this year
• am averaging 25.7 miles to the gallon in my grand am.

according to fueleconomy.gov, my car is supposed to get 18mpg in the city, 27 on the highway…so I am not doing that bad. What is funny is that last year when I drove to north carolina. I somehow got 31.4mpg…that might have been a fluke or something

I would show you the pretty graphs that mymilemarker.com generates, but they are all flash based, and for some reason they don’t have any way of exporting the charts or data… jerks

I bought this car before I even had a license. It also was the start of me being in debt. Every month it needed at least 1 $500 repair.

1989 Lincoln Mark VII

This car was the source of a good 100,000 miles of fun driving around aimlessly. It was a great car, and my favorite car that I have owned.

1984 Ford Crown Vic.

I wish it came with the sirens. I didn’t have a picture of the actual one I had. Lets just say it looked a lot crappier, had 190,000 on it when I bought it. And cost a cool $400. It featured such luxuries as:

1. “Balony Skin” tires (thats what a cop yelling at me called them). They had absolutely no treads left on them, which made fish tailing around rotaries and skidding to long screetching noisy stops next to innocent pedestrians a blast.

2. Burnt oil smoke billowing out of the engine bay. It was concentrated just outside of the drivers side door, which made being pulled over a blast

This car lasted a solid month before the exhaust system literally fell of the car while I was driving it. Then the car sounded like a helicopter. So I “donated it” to the junk yard.

1996 Monte Carlo

The transmission was going, and was going to cost $2600 to fix. So I brought it to a little dealership, used a code scanner to clear all the check engine trouble codes the transmission kept throwing, and traded it in for this beast:

1987 Buick Regal

When I got this, it was actually primer grey. The guy that owned the dealership was really confused, and thought he was going to make a killing trading it for my monte carlo, but the joke was really on him. That monte carlo was still on his lot a year later. And this car had a 455 Big Block in it. It came with the Grand National body moldings, and I got it a fancy $300 MAACO paint job. Spared no expense. This car met an untimely demise while doing donuts in a parking lot one faitful night. I blew an engine bearing, and the engine was so big, it was impossible to take the oil pan off to even look at the problem without having to completely remove the engine. So I sold it to some guy for a couple hundred dollars.

Here are more fun pictures of the regal

1984 Chevy Blazer (K5)

I think I spent $3500 to buy this. It had a 4″ body lift and little 31″ tires on it. I drove it around for a couple months before I dismantled it and put $15,000 into it before I took it all apart again, and sold it for parts. I actually owned this truck during the time I owned the below 2 cars. It was just in pieces in my parents driveway the majority of the time

More pictures of the blazer project
2001 Lincoln LS

This car was nice, I ended up trading it in for the next car because it was designed stupidly. Everything was aluminum, and everything on it cost a ton.

2005 Pontiac Grand Am

Mine is grey, and I hate it. It’s just dumb

how?

Here is a quick update from DogTime and another one from the Best Friends Animal Society

My Much More Awesome Economic Stimulus Plan

and thought this line was great:

I spoke to President Bush about this earlier and offered some alternatives to this plan, but he wasn’t able to respond because I was talking to a TV broadcast of him.

that is all

they just HAD to make it all curvy, but this is probably the best design yet..especially for a modern reintroduction.

it doesn’t look like a V6 either….

here is a gallery:http://www.dodge.com/en/2008/challenger/gallery/

boooooo! boooooooo!

start off with this: One thing PC users can do that mac users can’t

1. Bottled water is more pure than tap water.

   False: Tap
   water is guaranteed safe for consumption. It is controlled regularly to
   see whether it is free from any harmful chemical and bacteriological
   presence. It is often labeled as unsafe because of the unpleasant taste
   of the chlorine in the water. This bad taste disappears after leaving a
   pitcher of tap water in the fridge or adding a slice of lemon into the
   pitcher of tap water. But in regions where the tap water is high in
   nitrates, it is better to drink bottled water.

Link: 12 Widespread Drink Myths Demystified

Touchtyping online

blah blah blah blah

the real secret to losing weight (and not gaining it back) is simple. math

1) first you figure out how many calories your body burns off just existing. There are calorie calculators everywhere, but basically:

For guys – Multiply the body weight by 10; add double the
body weight to this value.
[i.e., for a 150 lb male, 1,500 + (2 x
150)=1,800 cal/day BMR]

For adult females – Multiply body weight by 10; add the body weight
to this value.
[i.e., for a 120 lb female, 1,200 + 120=1,320 cal/day BMR]

2) keep track of what you eat every day. Sign up for a free account on SparkPeople, or pay for an account on Calorie King. Its a pain in the ass, but once you get used to it, it takes a whopping 10 minutes a day to record it all.

3) from there it is real easy.

To not gain weight:
amount of calories consumed needs to be equal to, or less than the amount of calories you burn

to gain weight:
amount of calories consumed needs to be greater than the amount of calories you burn

to lose weight:
amount of calories consumed needs to be less than the amount of calories you burn

you don’t need to “go on a diet”. you don’t need to count points, buy any kit…or even go to the gym for that matter. If you are a normal moderately healthy person, and your thyroid isn’t broken. It will just work.

And….unlike in those crazy infomercials. You actually can eat whatever you want. If you have a donut for breakfast, you’ll have to make up for it later, but you can still have it. If you want to lose weight all the faster. Just eat more lower calorie foods. If you want to lose weight even faster, then go to the gym.

Every diet in existence is bound to fail eventually. No one wants to stick to a certain kind of food for a long time. More often than not, if you are on a diet and are seeing success, at one point or another you rebound. You stop losing weight as fast, or in many case, start to gain weight again, get upset, and then just stop it all together.

make the math work, and everything else will work with it. Sure it is more helpful to go to the gym, and to eat healthy, but those are all just bonus points in my mind. making the calorie numbers work is sort of the base line. You go to the gym, you gain 200 bonus points. Have fruit instead of ice cream, 800 bonus points.

Anyway, Blender wrote a nice article about Gale.

The pagination is broken, so you have to click on both of these links to read both pages of the article:

The Revenge of Crazy Nate – Page 1

The Revenge of Crazy Nate – Page 2

sans David Hasselhoff (except for a guest appearance)
sans William Daniels (voice of kitt….aka Mr Feeny)
sans the firebird.

I love the nice rice rocket spoiler on the back…oh wait…dual gay spoilers! I wonder how the plastic ground effects on the car will handle gun fire. It doesnt look like a molecular bonded shell to me.

And look at the interior. This is the lamest interior ever. I think they took the normal mustang, and just swapped out the steering wheel for a slightly more gay one.

how can you have a knight rider show with none of the cast?

better yet, how can they call the car in the new show “KITT”?

ohhh……lucky for them the number two and the number three both begin with the letter “t”. The new “car” is a Knight Industries Three Thousand…not one of those old outdated two thousands.

No wonder David Hasselhoff was all drunk and wasted in that video on youtube.

god…..a mustang….what a load of crap.

Read about it here

This article was interesting until she started rambling about “galloping elitism” or even mentioning the possibility that this was all because he was “brought up in the ghetto”. What a load of crap

willitblend?

Baby Jessica (I wish we recorded that song harold/ryan/eric/I made)

Some dumb baseball kid

The baby on the cover of Nirvana’s Nevermind

Some dumb kid that showed up Dan Quayle
Some weird girl