On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 01:52:57PM +0000, Alex Bennée wrote: > > Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4...@amsat.org> writes: > > > On 11/16/21 08:05, Marc-André Lureau wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 6:31 PM Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4...@amsat.org > >> <mailto:f4...@amsat.org>> wrote: > >> > >> On 11/15/21 15:06, Thomas Huth wrote: > >> > Gitlab also provides runners with Windows, we can use them to > >> > test compilation with MSYS2, in both, 64-bit and 32-bit. > >> > > >> > However, it takes quite a long time to set up the VM, so to > >> > stay in the 1h time frame, we can only compile and check one > >> > target here. > >> > >> > >> I wonder why gitlab does not offer the docker executor. On the > >> freedesktop gitlab instance, they have windows docker executor, which > >> speeds up the build time. Maybe we could also have our own Windows > >> runner for qemu? > > > > We could, foss.org provides the QEMU project with x86 VMs resources > > we are not using. What we miss is a sysadmin willing to setup & > > maintain a such runner. > > I think we might also have Azure credits from MS, but the same issues > about admin and setup probably exist.
I've never explored this in any way, but IIUC, Azure should have ability to run *windows* containers. If that's possible, then we could avoid the admin burden of a VM and just use throwaway windows containers as we do for Linux. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
