On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 17:34 +0300, Dmitry Polevoy wrote: > I think I can organize nightly builds for Windows (32 bit) in > Cognitive. But we are not able to make building and testing in xNix.
Actually, after I've read more about what XEN is able to provide us with ATM, I find this solution more and more compelling. What we need is basically: 1) A headless machine with reasonable hardware (~2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo, supporting VT-x, e.g. Wolfdale, 2x250 SATA HDDs, 4-8 Gb of RAM, 2 NICs) 2) IP-KVM for remote management (great, but not absolute necessity) 3) Reliable Internet connection Then we simply set up CentOS 5 x86_64 as a privileged administrative domain (dom0) and a number of minimal installations (w/o X.Org and stuff, only complete dev tools, reasonable userland stuff and ssh) as domU for the other OSes (Linux, BSD, XP), both i386 and x86_64 using hardware vitalization. OSes will run at near native speed in terms of CPU, I/O will be quite slow, but this is not really a concern. The management can be done using XEN's embedded VNC server (for Windows-inclined: read Radmin) for each OS and SSH tunnels for Unix-like systems. I think that ~512 Mb RAM would be more then enough for each of those, so 4 Gb gives us 8 OSes to test upon. I don't have prior experience with XEN, but I have been administrating ~5 CentOS boxes for the past few years, and it's a very admin-friendly distribution that comes with lots of prepackaged and pre-configured stuff, so I can somehow help to set things up in my spare time... Just a few thoughts. -- Sincerely yours, Yury V. Zaytsev _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~cuneiform Post to : cuneiform@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~cuneiform More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
