On 12/02/13 22:44, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:32:59 +0100 Bertrand Jacquin <be...@meleeweb.net> said:
>
>> D'ar gwener 08 a viz C'hwevrer 2013 e 03 eur 35, « Carsten Haitzler » he deus
>> skrivet :
>>> On Thu, 07 Feb 2013 09:35:07 -0600 ravenlock <ravenl...@ravenlock.us> said:
>>>
>>>> On 1/30/13 5:32 AM, Bertrand Jacquin wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> For e5 buildbot/whatever we will need different OS and architecture to
>>>>> test. So if some volunteer are free to build some, we can gladly host
>>>>> them.
>>>>>
>>>>> Needed OS :
>>>>>
>>>>>   - Windows XP x86
>>>>>   - Windows XP x86_64
>>>>>   - Windows Vista x86_64
>>>>>   - Windows 7 x86_64
>>>>>   - Windows 8 x86_64
>>>>
>>>> What is the plan for licensing the above?
>>>
>>> someone needs to actually pay for a proper license/copy. there is no way i
>>> will allow us to use pirated copies of any software on our infra. if we ask
>>> people to respect our licenses, be they bsd, gpl or anything else, then we
>>> will respect theirs, regardless if they are open or not.
>>>
>>>>>   (maybe more declination are needed ?)
>>>>>
>>>>>   - Mac OS X Snow Leopard
>>>>>   - Mac OS X Lion
>>>>>   - Mac OS X Mountain Lion
>>>>
>>>> This is easy and do'able if you have the Mac hardware and Parallels.
>>>> Refurbed Mac Minis are like $500, you can stuff 16GB in them and a 1TB
>>>> disk.  Works perfectly well.  Once upon a time there were E-funds being
>>>> held.  We might tap into those?
>>>
>>> he's asking for vm's, not hardware. we can't do squat diddly with a mac
>>> mini. our server is in a rack in a server room/colo in oregon. :) i know -
>>> osx expressly forbids being used on anything other than apple hardware (vm's
>>> included).
>>
>> On Illiad datacenter (where e3 and e4 are), we can add some hardware
>> devices (no more than 1U tall)
>
> oh cool - though that is a different matter imho - not "e5" related as that's
> over in oregon (osuosl). :)
>
>>> something installed with network running and preferably everything up to and
>>> including x running and working within the vm
>>
>> Why is a X needed as running ? Librairies should be sufficient.
>
> test suites will need to be able to RUN apps ans do things like screenshot.
> exactness relies on this to replay recorded events then take screenshots for
> comparison. sure - xvfb will deal with this too - just the same, but no distro
> these days sets up x to listen on port 6000 anyway - so its local only (uni
> sockets) so not a security issue anyway.. and its behind a nat anyway even if
> it did listen on port 6000... but we would need a working x setup to do things
> like test login sessions, entrance for example etc. and we can feed in events
> remotely.
>

Exactness doesn't need X. IIRC we changed it to use the buffer engine.

--
Tom.


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