SuSE Enterprise. My high school runs two win server 2k8 instances on that since they need Windows. That is a quad-core with 8G RAM though...
Casper -----Original Message----- From: Ralf Habacker <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:55:18 To: KDE on Windows<[email protected]> Subject: Re: A server for nightly builds. (was: Nightly builds) Bernhard Reiter schrieb: > Am Dienstag, 25. August 2009 13:51:26 schrieb Ralf Habacker: > >> If the build server would be hosted also on 1&1 one can >> benefit from the big pipe (about 6MB/s) between both servers for quickly >> release transfering. >> They have also a separate ftp backup space and a separated firewall >> which reduce the maintaince on the server (I installed already some >> windows and linux servers in this way ) >> > > I wonder if using VirtualBox on a GNU/Linux machine would be an option: > - sounds good > Pros: > + Can run more than once build process simultaniously, > and specific platform test vm's could be created to check functionality for a specific windows os > + more flexible with the needed windows variant. > agreed > + More separation from the internet, possibly less maintenance effort in > keeping stuff secure > yes, in the opposite some more efforts required on the host, see network issue below > + Server rent less expensive, so we get more computing power for less > > Cons: > - A speed cost of running VirtualServer > seems no problem on a server with good performance - from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtualBox "VirtualBox achieves a performance that is comparable to that of VMware" > - A little less native, though this should not matter for the builds. > the drawback is that harddisc of a will probably be huge - i guess about 25-40 GB for a single vm. > - We need to buy windows licenses separately and manage them if we > build in parallel > - Does anyone have free windows license xp, vista, windows 7 ? 64 releases ? I remember that some mdsn packages contains os licenses. Some notes: - On many root server there is - in vmware terms - "no bridged network" possible. According to http://kex.cc/2006/09/16/vmware-auf-einem-rootserver-betreiben/ (only german) vm's have to use nat and on the host a private network has to be installed There are also the following questions: - Which linux os is prefered ? (I personally only have knowledge with opensuse) - Does anyone have experience installing virtualbox on a root server ? - Does anyone have enough knowledge to deal with the above mentioned network issues ? Ralf _______________________________________________ Kde-windows mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows _______________________________________________ Kde-windows mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows
