On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Adam Barth <aba...@webkit.org> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Alex Milowski <a...@milowski.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Adam Barth <aba...@webkit.org> wrote: >>> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Alex Milowski <a...@milowski.com> wrote: >>>> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Eric Seidel <e...@webkit.org> wrote: >>>>> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 7:12 AM, Alex Milowski <a...@milowski.com> wrote: >>>>>>> The only EWS which requires committer access is Mac-EWS. All other >>>>>>> EWS bots will run any patch. >>>>>> >>>>>> Why is that? That's the platform I'm most interested in see run. >>>>> >>>>> Various reasons. Mostly due to our current hardware setup. If >>>>> someone has some mac hardware they'd like to donate to the cause it >>>>> would be most welcome. >>>> >>>> That seems really, really solvable. >>> >>> The core issue here is that the license for Mac OS X prevents us from >>> running the OS in a virtual machine. The way we protect ourselves >>> from random folks haxoring the EWS on Linux is by running them on EC2 >>> and re-imagining the machines periodically. >> >> So, it is possible to run Mac OS X on a virtual machine: > > Oh, awesome! > >> The real issue is you can't run this in the cloud like on an EC2 server >> because of the hardware restriction in Apple's license, right? > > EC2 has support for Linux and Windows, but not Mac. I have been > meaning to set up a Windows box, but I haven't gotten around to it > yet. If you know of a cloud provider that has Mac, we can set up the > mac-ews there.
The only non-dedicated server hosting provider I've found is GoDaddy: http://www.godaddy.com/hosting/mac-hosting.aspx I don't know if starting/stopping instances is as easy as Amazon's EC2 service (which I use). I've never used their virtual hosting service. -- --Alex Milowski "The excellence of grammar as a guide is proportional to the paucity of the inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language considered." Bertrand Russell in a footnote of Principles of Mathematics _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
