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I often have multiple virtual machines for different purposes. Some I keep idle, some I destroy and recreate when needed, and some I use for actual work and they stay there forever.

Recently I ran out of space. It was not really bad planning on my side, I just didn’t have more space to allocate at the moment. I got a new disk to dedicate just to VMs. The new disk is faster but it’s not very big; if I’m not careful I will run out of space again.

I decided to move some virtual machines; just the ones that have a GUI. The server based ones that are not interactive can stay in the old and slightly slower disk.

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I love challenges, and working with Oracle products has always been a challenge for me. This love/hate relationship started ~20 years ago when I could not set up the first version of Oracle Internet Directory, following the documentation word by word! I had to “fix” several scripts to make it install, and in the end, even though it installed, it still wouldn’t work… It was the only product I cared enough to remember that failure after so many years. Or maybe, the only product I failed to tame.

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Some months ago I bought a desktop system. I hadn’t had one for years, but a very strange and unexpected need came up; I wanted to play games with my son who lives in Greece, in an attempt to spend a bit more time with him, even virtually.
I bought and built a desktop system based on AMD’s excellent Ryzen line, but that’s for another time. On that computer, and as it would be used predominantly for games, I installed MS Windows. That is another thing that hadn’t happened in my household for decades!

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