So I've clearly neglected giving frequent updates, so I'll try to summarize everything that's been going on and maybe try to post more frequently in the future (I feel like I've said that many times before).
The summer ended very well, I think. My GSoC project vlosuts concluded with a fully working version, and so hopefully some guys over at Quality Assurance can be goaded into giving it a try. Once Lars and I find some time (it seems like both our lives have been quite hectic) we'll be submitting it to the unstable branch. I intend to continue supporting and developing it; in fact last night I just checked in the first update for VirtualBox support, as recommended by Jon in my comments. It does seem to work faster than QEMU and Innotek did a quality job (in my opinion at least) of packaging it. The biggest kink is that it does not support raw disk images, and so vlosuts gets slowed down by having to convert to VMDK and back, for which I am using qemu-img (and does anyone know why VBoxManage unregisterimage doesn't seem to be working for VMDKs?). If it's possible to do a loopback mount of VMDK (without VMware's utility) it would probably make more sense to use VMDK instead of a raw image to begin with, but I'm not familiar with any way to do this. At any rate, first version of VirtualBox is there for anyone who'd like to give it a shot.
Anyone not concerned with the personal going-ons of my life should stop reading right about now. Since my semester started up again at the end of August, I've pretty much hit the ground running. I'm taking 20 units (I think the average is around 15), one of which is a mathematics graduate course. I'm also doing a research project in computer science, working a part time job (which I try to do for about 10 hours a week), and getting my graduate school applications taken care of. For anyone who is curious, the GRE is a terrible thing. Graduate school and fellowship applications have been a particular headache, but fortunately I'm just about finished up with the essays. For the curious I'll be applying to mathematics departments with an emphasis in logic and foundations at the following universities (list subject to change frequently): MIT, Berkeley, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, Urbana-Champaign, UMich.
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