I have two G5s, a G4 and a 4U G1 I can donate if someone wants to pay for shipping or hosting.
Mike. On Tue, 4 Aug 2015 at 08:36 Nicholas Skaggs <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/01/2015 09:19 AM, Sujeevan (svij) Vijayakumaran wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Am 31.07.2015 um 22:32 schrieb Nicholas Skaggs: > >> -svij and shrini agreed to setup a test jenkins instance to help answer > >> our lingering questions on what we need. Specifically they'll be > looking at > >> where should we host this? > >> can we test in the cloud? > >> what type of setup should we have (how many slaves, how many instances)? > >> and trying to get us all setup with a jenkins instance we can add jobs > >> to and iterate on moving forward. > >> > > I've set up an Jenkins-Master server today, but there isn't anything yet > > (http://jenkins.svij.org). It runs on digital ocean (for 10$/month + > > 2$/month for backups) > > > > I also had a look into the tests to check the other questions. The sad > > thing is, that we can't host this on digitalocean, because digitalocean > > doesn't support nested kvm virtualisation. The tests do use local kvm on > > the host machine. > > > > We have three options now: > > > > * rent a physical machine, where we can run the tests on local kvm > > * buy a physical machine and host that somewhere (e.g. at someones > home…) > > * rent a amazon ec2 instance (which is virtualized but uses hvm with > xen) > > > > All three options are kind of expensive. The first option probably needs > > a contract for atleast a year (depends on the provider). IMHO the best > > solution is to use amazon ec2. We could write a script which starts an > > fresh ec2 instance and runs the tests. After that we can drop the ec2 > > instance again. Running the ec2 instance (t2.medium with 2GB RAM) 24/7 > > would nearly cost 40$… but they were idling most of the time anyway. So > > the best and cheapest option is to only use them, when there are new iso > > images to test. The jenkins master server needs to run 24/7, that could > > continue to run on digital ocean. > > > > I don't have experience with amazon aws/ec2, if theres something wrong, > > please correct me. > > > > Cheers, > > Sujeevan > > > Sujeevan, thanks for looking into this! While I see there's some tricks > available to allow for nested virtualization, do we know this will > actually work? Can anyone comment if they've used things like > xen-blanket in the past for this? > > On the other options, I'm open to feedback. Does anyone have suggested > hardware or hosting since we are looking more and more like we need > physical servers for this? Those with jenkins experience, what about the > thought of keeping master as a cloud server, and have a physical machine > be the slave that is located in someone's house or hosted? > > Nicholas > > -- > Ubuntu-quality mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality > -- Mike Lloyd U.S. Marine Corps, Comcast VIPER Cell: 808-633-8998 -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality
