VMs shouldn't be a problem for BuildBot -- the current openafs build master runs in a VM, and possibly the slave as well on that same system.
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From: w.phillip.mo...@gmail.com
Sent: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 11:20:57 -0400
To: sha...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] qemu arm slave for buildbotDoesn't look too terribly difficult to set up, but I don't have much in the way of hardware to offer. Is there any reason we can't use VMs for these build machines? I could probably setup the x86_64 platforms as VMs, if that works, and offer them as part of the buildbot network, unless these platforms need to be bare metal.I run my EFS development environment exclusively on VMs, and the host OS is MacOS X on a MacMini. The actual platforms I run as VMs include both i386 and x86_64 versions of CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu and FreeBSD, all via VMWare Fusion.Is such an environment considered a reasonable platform for the buildbit network?On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Derrick Brashear <sha...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Phillip Moore <w.phillip.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:Me too. Here's how you can add some:
>
> I'm curious why the i386 Linux distros are considered Tier 1, yet you don't
> say anything about x86_64. Coming from the world of financial computing,
> where we run just about everything on x86_64 hardware, I'm surprised you
> only mention i386.
> Seems to me that what is most important is really the OS distro in this case
> (Debian, RHEL) and both i386 and x86_64 versions should be tested as Tier 1
> platforms.
http://wiki.openafs.org/AFSLore/BuildbotSlaveHowto/
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