I think something else that needs to be considered is the virtualization platform, there is xen kvm etc each offering their own benefits.
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Norbert Thiebaud <nthieb...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 4:33 AM, Florian Effenberger > <flo...@documentfoundation.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'll check with my admin colleagues if there's a solution, otherwise we > need > > to find another hoster for those boxes. (Although I am really scared of > > having a Windows 7 box directly connected to the Internet, but that's a > > different story...) > > Actually that later point is indeed scary... so maybe so solution to > both is to run W7 in a vm on a minimalist host OS, with ~all ressource > allocated to that one vm. > I could not find clear and convincing pages about the impact of vm vs > native... but I think we can at least give it a shoot on one box to > see what kind of build perf we get. > > Norbert > > -- Jonathan Aquilina
