Dagobert Michelsen <[email protected]> writes: > Hi Peter, > > Am 03.10.2013 um 15:57 schrieb Peter FELECAN <[email protected]>: >> Dagobert Michelsen <[email protected]> writes: >>> Adding another ISA as option will probably take quite some time. >>> Peter, do you think your use case is common enough to justify the >>> extra work for Yann? Would using a VM on a more modern machine >>> be also possible? >> >> Using a VM, even on modern machine, has it's own inconvenients and, >> frankly, who can imagine a build farm on VMs? It requires bare metal for >> a lot of reasons. > > Umh, the buildfarm you use runs on VMs ;-) That include all *x hosts. > What reasons do you have in mind preventing running a farm on > virtualized environments?
I know that. And suffer from that, don't get me wrong but at least on i386 the build times are often one order of magnitude slower than on my similar bare metal on which, of course, I'm alone. It's often more easier to get a bunch of oldish bare metal than have a server capable of well supporting VMs at a reasonable performance. And I'm not even mentioning SPARC bare metal versus virtualization for which I have not enough experience. Anyhow, the point is not this, the point is that we have stuff which doesn't run on the lowest denominator that we support and that can be quite surprising, even for me. -- Peter _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
