Thanks Jelmer, Julian, and Martin for your replies. I've updated https://dev.launchpad.net/Running to mention VMs and to link to the appropriate places in this thread.
-Karl Julian Edwards <[email protected]> writes: >On Monday 24 May 2010 11:10:06 Jelmer Vernooij wrote: >> On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 23:56 -0400, Karl Fogel wrote: >> > I've heard (second hand) that some developers have found it very useful >> > to do their Launchpad development in VMs. Then you can hose your >> > Postgres DBs with impunity, not worry about running rocketfuel-setup as >> > root, not worry about modifying /etc/hosts, etc. >> > >> > Does anyone here have experience doing Launchpad development in a VM? >> > And if so, would you like to document it in the wiki, probably linked to >> > from https://dev.launchpad.net/Running? Even just a brief mention of >> > what VM package you used, along with any special configuration, would >> > help -- at least it would remind people that this route is available. >> > >> > (Note we already have https://dev.launchpad.net/Running/Schroot linked >> > from Running, offering similar benefits. But IIUC going the full VM >> > route is somewhat different from just running in a chroot jail.) >> >> I'm running two Lucid VM's in KVM to be able to run the testsuite in two >> branches sat the same time. There isn't much special about my setup >> (it's just a plain Lucid install in both VMs with Launchpad installed), >> but I can document it if you like. > >I used to do the same thing - I used vmbuilder to make a basic server VM image >and then ran rf-setup in it. It's really very trivial and no different to >standard LP development. > >The reason I stopped doing this is because it makes the tests run very slowly >compared to normal. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
