On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net> wrote:
> On 2015-04-28 15:31:50 -0700, Paul Hargrove wrote:
[...snip...]
>
> > 1) Is there any effort (current or planned for the near-future) to revive
> > any of the IA64, ARM, MIPS or SPARC systems?
> >
> > 2) Is there any desire from users to see QEMU-emulated ARM, MIPS or SPARC
> > within cfarm if the real h/w is non-recoverable?
>
> If (1) is not possible, I think that the only possibility is to use
> emulated VM's. Now, I suppose that most users should be able to do
> that on their own machines (once they find some good tutorial so that
> they won't have to spend hours reading documentation).
>
> > 3) Is there any desire from the users to see newer {Free,Net,Open}BSD
> than
> > presently in gcc76's set of VMs?
>
> Having access to both old and new versions would be useful.
>
[...snip...]
If the argument that "most users should be able to do that" is sufficient
to prevent deployment within cfarm, then I doubt any of the VMs on gcc76
would be needed.
In fact, deploying a virtual a x86-64 system running one of the BSDs or
Linux versions hosted on gcc76 is marginally easier (and significantly
faster) than doing the same with a QEMU-based emulator.
If there is sufficient interest, I can consider looking for the time to
de-personalizing the disk images I have and share them with the gcc-cfarm
community.
I have images for three ARM systems (gnueabi/ARMv5, gnueabihf/ARMv7 and
aarch64/ARMv8) and two MIPS systems (Malta with 4Kc and 5Kc cpus), all of
which are running either Debian Jessie or Ubuntu Utpoic.
These really are not that hard to construct from the respective net-install
images once you have the right QEMU command line.
I also have images for FreeBSD-11, NetBSD-6 and OpenBSD-5 (all at or near
latest releases) for x86-64, which run under KVM (virtio disk and network).
These are more or less trivial to setup if you've ever provisioned a
KVM-based virtual machine before.
-Paul
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