Doesn't look too terribly difficult to set up, but I don't have much in the
way of hardware to offer.   Is there any reason we can't use VMs for these
build machines?    I could probably setup the x86_64 platforms as VMs, if
that works, and offer them as part of the buildbot network, unless these
platforms need to be bare metal.

I run my EFS development environment exclusively on VMs, and the host OS is
MacOS X on a MacMini.   The actual platforms I run as VMs include both i386
and x86_64 versions of CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu and FreeBSD, all via VMWare
Fusion.

Is such an environment considered a reasonable platform for the buildbit
network?

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Derrick Brashear <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Phillip Moore <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > I'm curious why the i386 Linux distros are considered Tier 1, yet you
> don't
> > say anything about x86_64.   Coming from the world of financial
> computing,
> > where we run just about everything on x86_64 hardware, I'm surprised you
> > only mention i386.
> > Seems to me that what is most important is really the OS distro in this
> case
> > (Debian, RHEL) and both i386 and x86_64 versions should be tested as Tier
> 1
> > platforms.
>
> Me too. Here's how you can add some:
> http://wiki.openafs.org/AFSLore/BuildbotSlaveHowto/
>

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