Re: [sage-devel] Virtual machines -- I'm curious...

2012-08-29 Thread David Kirkby
On 28 August 2012 20:55, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, See the exchange below. I'm curious if there is anybody reading this who would want to manage a bunch of Virtualbox VM's, if we had a server *devoted* solely to running them, all for making Sage build in a much wider range

Re: [sage-devel] Virtual machines -- I'm curious...

2012-08-29 Thread Jan Groenewald
Hi, On 29 August 2012 06:38, David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: On 28 August 2012 20:55, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, See the exchange below. I'm curious if there is anybody reading this who would want to manage a bunch of Virtualbox VM's, if we had a server

Re: [sage-devel] Virtual machines -- I'm curious...

2012-08-29 Thread Burcin Erocal
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 07:05:56 + Jan Groenewald j...@aims.ac.za wrote: Hi, On 29 August 2012 06:38, David Kirkby david.kir...@onetel.net wrote: On 28 August 2012 20:55, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, See the exchange below. I'm curious if there is anybody reading

Re: [sage-devel] Virtual machines -- I'm curious...

2012-08-29 Thread Jan Groenewald
Hi Also, the 2GB is a requirement for running graphics. This is not even necessary for notebook testing. You can install 1GB virtual machines and stop the GUI on them. Regards, Jan On 29 August 2012 09:46, Burcin Erocal bur...@erocal.org wrote: On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 07:05:56 + Jan

Re: [sage-devel] Virtual machines -- I'm curious...

2012-08-29 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
On 2012-08-29 09:05, Jan Groenewald wrote: Two Gigabytes is sufficient for each for RAM. If you add swap space, perhaps yes. But 2GB is not sufficient neither for building the documentation nor for running all doctests in Sage. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: [sage-devel] Virtual machines -- I'm curious...

2012-08-29 Thread David Kirkby
On 29 August 2012 08:05, Jan Groenewald j...@aims.ac.za wrote: The four (or six) volunteers are presumably adept at installing a machine, adding buildbot_slave and auto updates, and repsonding every few months to an anomaly. There could be a reasonable argument made for not updating them,

Re: [sage-devel] Virtual machines -- I'm curious...

2012-08-29 Thread David Kirkby
On 29 August 2012 08:05, Jan Groenewald j...@aims.ac.za wrote: I'm not sure I understand completely. My back-of-the-envelope calculation came out an order of magnitude differently. Em, that's a big difference. Two Gigabytes is sufficient for each for RAM. I don't believe it is. I think

Re: [sage-devel] Virtual machines -- I'm curious...

2012-08-29 Thread Volker Braun
On Wednesday, August 29, 2012 10:46:23 AM UTC+1, Burcin Erocal wrote: It is possible to script the creation of virtual machines: If you only need to do it once then it is my experience that its easier to do it manually (even if that means going through a slow vnc) So in theory, many more

[sage-devel] Virtual machines -- I'm curious...

2012-08-28 Thread William Stein
Hi, See the exchange below. I'm curious if there is anybody reading this who would want to manage a bunch of Virtualbox VM's, if we had a server *devoted* solely to running them, all for making Sage build in a much wider range of distros. This would take a person with a very particular set of

Re: [sage-devel] Virtual machines -- I'm curious...

2012-08-28 Thread Jan Groenewald
Hi Perhaps it need not be one person. I might be interested in all supported versions of Ubuntu and Debian on 32 and 64 bit. Regards, Jan On 28 August 2012 19:55, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, See the exchange below. I'm curious if there is anybody reading this who would want

Re: [sage-devel] Virtual machines -- I'm curious...

2012-08-28 Thread Andrea Lazzarotto
Me too for the Ubuntu family, but probably I can learn in half an hour to be useful also on Fedora and OpenSuSE. Andrea Lazzarotto (From Android) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups sage-devel group. To post to this group, send email to