Sorry I seem to be dense this morning... I just reassigned 3112 to myself; please go ahead and update it with more details (hom much disk space you will probably need etc) however.
On 9/19/07, Danny Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Mike, > > I'm Danny, the new OLPC sys admin. We should def be able to get you > space somewhere to do this, although it won't happen immediatly due to > my current load. Could you open a ticket on http://dev.laptop.org with > details (approx resource requirements, etc) and assign it to me > (djbclark)? > > Thanks, > -- > Daniel Clark # Sys Admin, One Laptop per Child > # http://laptop.org # http://opensysadmin.com > # http://planyp.us/djbclark # http://dclark.us > > On 9/16/07, Mike C. Fletcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > C. Scott Ananian wrote: > > > We've been running and building qemu images on xs-dev; you might > > > consider doing root-stuff on a machine which is not dev. xs-dev > > > already has qemu, etc installed. > > > > > Seems like the building of the VMWare/VirtualBox images has been > > temporarily shunted off to "too busy" status [1], so I guess it's up to > > me to do get it arranged in the near term. I've modified the > > image-building script so that it knows the build numbers (instead of > > using timestamps). I'd like to have the script cron'd up so that it > > runs every X period and picks up the latest devel releases. > > > > I can only to run it every week-or-so on my workstation due to a > > limited-bandwidth account between me and the OLPC servers (both very > > slow and having a low total transfer cap). Current script only requires > > a qemu install, no root required. > > > > bzr branch http://www.vrplumber.com/bzr/buildemulator > > > > Scott, picking up on your (possible, implied) offer, any chance we could > > run that conversion/upload script on xs-dev? It would require that we > > have a no-password-required ssh key on xs-dev that would give that > > account access to my dev.laptop.org account to do the uploads. Other > > than that there shouldn't be too many issues (maybe storage space, but > > we can change the script to delete the results after upload to fix that, > > I leave the results around so that I can test the vmdk's and see if they > > work). If it's not practical to run on xs-dev, no problem, I'll run the > > script here each week. > > > > Current images are not running under VMWare or VirtualBox[2], but the > > old 557 image is running with the conversion process as currently > > written (it no longer creates VMI files), so it seems like we have a > > real regression there, rather than a problem with the conversion. I'm > > producing .zip files for download so that both Win32 and Linux/Unix > > users can access them easily. > > > Don't worry too much about upgrading -- as long as your developer > > > tools are in /home/olpc they will be preserved across updates by the > > > upgrade magic which is going to land on Monday. > > > --scott > > > > > Is that magic already in-place? If so, how is it getting triggered, and > > does it go to the latest version? Or is it only going to "stable" > > versions? That is, can a developer just run their VMWare image and have > > it automatically update itself to the latest build over the network? > > > > Anyway, have fun, > > Mike > > > > [1] https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/3112 > > [2] https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/3503 > > > > -- > > ________________________________________________ > > Mike C. Fletcher > > Designer, VR Plumber, Coder > > http://www.vrplumber.com > > http://blog.vrplumber.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Devel mailing list > > Devel@lists.laptop.org > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > > -- Daniel Clark # Sys Admin, One Laptop per Child # http://laptop.org # http://opensysadmin.com # http://planyp.us/djbclark # http://dclark.us
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