It's definitely a thing, yes - myself, renting 48 core/320+gb ram as my remote test lab :/
Have you seen the frontier state of distributed Linux-based handheld computer OS development btw? https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/build I guess.. So Chrome/AOSP/Chromium targets are not a problem to be building daily even on a entry level R5, but shipping a sequence of releases following some plan especially when having a dozen of SKUs and a need to revisit - can definitely win from local order of extra blinkenlights. I'd say... Compiling/fuzzing: go for faster cpus locally / optimize ssd. (Check build trace chat, 1/3 is basically "write and delete 50gb of temp fs images") . Compiling: rent cpus / buy remote cheap storage Shipping releases: rent it Setting up QA, sweatshop lab/training environment: own it On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 11:46 PM Iben Rodriguez <[email protected]> wrote: > Do most of you use physical machines to build a full custom ROM? > > I found this link > <https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/guide-complete-how-to-build-rom-with-google-cloud.3360430/> > but it's pretty old so I wanted to get some current ideas and options from > you more experienced people who have been doing this. > > We have to decide to purchase a big multi-core linux system to sit under > someone's desk in the office or just rent one in the cloud. We have a > decent 2gpbs internet link and are mostly running vs code IDE today. If > the machine was hosted in the cloud we could VNC into it and run VS Code > from anywhere. Has anyone done this? Any pros or cons? > > Many thanks in advance! > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "Android > Building" mailing list. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-building?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Building" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/android-building/6b169c63-840f-403f-ba38-8fd7c06cd31dn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/android-building/6b169c63-840f-403f-ba38-8fd7c06cd31dn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "Android Building" mailing list. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-building?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Building" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/android-building/CAK-rsLJcVkOhMwTP75BjhX%3DUj9tWMZGvAzHoV3HL2tBt6a3p0A%40mail.gmail.com.
