I had to give them a card reference to get started (companies seem obsessed by this), but I made sure the "Spending Limit" option remained in place and set to 0 euro. This way the worst case scenario is that if I run out of 'free' credits before the month ends, my services will be suspended, but nothing is charged to my credit card.
EdB On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Frédéric THOMAS <webdoubl...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Ok, I checked better and it should be 1 x M = 2 UC x 1,6 GHz, 3,5 GB RAM = > €99,74/mo, so it should fit into the offered 115 euro/month, what is weird > is they're asking me for a credit card reference, I just don't want to be > charged, I think to remember you talk about it but can't find the email > again, how this happened for you ? did you give your bank card ref ? > > > -Fred > > -----Message d'origine----- From: Erik de Bruin > Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 9:26 AM > > To: dev@flex.apache.org > Subject: Re: Parallel Mustella runs > > Actually, MS just changed the way they "charge" for the MSDN accounts, > they now work with credits. Currently my account has 115 euro/month > credit and - as far as I can tell, this is a recent change - running a > Medium VM (2 x 1.6GHz CPU, 3.5GB RAM) for a month will just fit that > credit. > > A Medium VM takes just about 11 hours to run the full suite of > Mustella tests (main, AIR and mobile), so anything 'smaller' will > probably not be practical. > > I'm putting the last touches on the Mustella jobs (one for each part > of the suite). > > I don't think we need to spend time on building a "test-run farm" for > Mustella. The current set up runs all tests twice a day. For the > current level of development going on on the SDK that is more than > plenty. Also, lots of tests are failing, we better spend our resources > making all tests pass. > > Although... it might be cool to have 2 more VMs up and running: one > Mustella on the most recent stable Flash Player and AIR and another > running the bleeding edge (beta) versions. > > I'm glad to share what I have, don't get me wrong. Once the three jobs > run cleanly, I'll look into a way to share the VM "disk". > > EdB > > > > > > > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Frédéric THOMAS > <webdoubl...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Just find back this thread. >> >> I received from Microsoft a free Visual Studio Ultimate with MSDN, so, >> that's include a Windows free Azure account >> with 1 UC 1 GHz, 768 Mb RAM, I don't know if it's enough to run a part of >> the tests, keep me in touch once you can run all of them on your VM, I >> might >> try to use a clone (*.vhd). >> >> Let me know what you think. >> >> -Fred >> >> -----Message d'origine----- From: Erik de Bruin >> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 6:35 PM >> To: dev@flex.apache.org >> Subject: Re: Parallel Mustella runs >> >> >> It should be possible to use the "disk" that contains my instance... >> But it seems to involve either some low level API manipulation or the >> purchase (trail?) of a piece of commercial software. I can look into >> it later this week, right now I'm a bit busy on a "little" landscaping >> project in our yard ;-) >> >> EdB >> >> >> >> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 6:16 PM, OmPrakash Muppirala >> <bigosma...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Jun 3, 2013 12:40 AM, "Erik de Bruin" <e...@ixsoftware.nl> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> The VM I run is a 2 core, 3,5GB memory 'medium' instance. A full run >>>> takes 9 hours. I remember your VM was a bit lighter? >>>> >>>> EdB >>> >>> >>> >>> I am hoping to follow your lead and create a medium instance as well. >>> Now, >>> if only there was a way to image your VM and make a clone of it. Do you >>> know if something like this is possible with Azure? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Om >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 7:44 AM, OmPrakash Muppirala >>>> <bigosma...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> > On Jun 2, 2013 10:33 PM, "Erik de Bruin" <e...@ixsoftware.nl> wrote: >>>> >> >>>> >> > So, the metric for success may require that script that checks for >>>> >> > failures.txt and runs with the -failures options. >>>> >> >>>> >> Ok, that script is ready to go in 'jenkins.sh', it's commented out on >>>> >> the bottom of the file. >>>> >> >>>> >> > But the interesting thing for me once we get this Jenkins thing >>> >>> >>> running >>>> >>>> >>>> >> > is: if several committers also set up this same Jenkins job, could >>>> >> > >> > we >>>> > have >>>> >> > them each run a subset of the mustella tests and report much >> > >>>> >> > sooner? >>> >>> >>> I >>>> >>>> >>>> >> > think it was you who suggested we could create a massively parallel >>>> >> > mustella system. >>>> >> >>>> >> If only I was such a creative thinker. I won't take credit for that >>>> >> idea as I don't have a clue where to start, even ;-) >>>> >> >>>> >> EdB >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> > >>>> > I have an Azure VM sitting idle. Theoretically, we could add it as a >>>> > second slave and divvy up the Mustella run into two halves. We should >>> >>> >>> be >>>> >>>> >>>> > able to have a single run in half the time. >>>> > >>>> > The more slaves we can add, the faster the run would get. >>>> > >>>> > Do you want me to give this idea a shot? >>>> > >>>> > Thanks, >>>> > Om >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Ix Multimedia Software >>>> >>>> Jan Luykenstraat 27 >>>> 3521 VB Utrecht >>>> >>>> T. 06-51952295 >>>> I. www.ixsoftware.nl >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Ix Multimedia Software >> >> Jan Luykenstraat 27 >> 3521 VB Utrecht >> >> T. 06-51952295 >> I. www.ixsoftware.nl > > > > > -- > Ix Multimedia Software > > Jan Luykenstraat 27 > 3521 VB Utrecht > > T. 06-51952295 > I. www.ixsoftware.nl -- Ix Multimedia Software Jan Luykenstraat 27 3521 VB Utrecht T. 06-51952295 I. www.ixsoftware.nl
