[wtr-general] Re: Watir virtual appliances?
You really have to wonder how that business model flies.. doesn't seem like it would even come close to paying for the hardware alone, much less license fees for licensed OS's On Jan 13, 11:14 pm, Dave McNulla mcnu...@gmail.com wrote: For $.50 a day we can run a VM in the cloud? I can hear Sally Struthers getting in on this. All around the world there are Watir scripts that can't run and play with web pages, but for pennies a day, you can help them find a home. Dave On Jan 13, 6:59 am, Emmanuel Cecchet cecc...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/13/2011 3:51 AM, Željko Filipin wrote: The Windows VM can be made available as Amazon EC2 AMIs for those who are willing to run their VMs in the cloud. Can they be shared? Yes. We can make these AMIs public for anyone to use. Basically the license price is included in the hourly rental price that is why Windows VMs are more expensive than Linux VMs ($0.12/hour vs $0.085/hour for a small instance). However for Watir purposes we should be able to use the new micro instances ($0.02/hour for Linux and $0.03/hour for Windows). I will keep you posted with my progress on this front. Emmanuel -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [wtr-general] Re: Watir virtual appliances?
You need to do that at large scale to be cost effective (for the provider). Also you are not alone on the machine, multiple VMs are collocated per physical machine. If you want more powerful machines where you are almost sure of having dedicated hardware, prices rise quickly. You can check the prices here: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ Note that if you want to give it a try, Amazon currently gives 750 micro instances hours free / month for one year to new users. Can be a good time for those who want to give it a try Emmanuel PS: I am not affiliated with Amazon, just using this platform for my research. On 1/19/2011 1:42 PM, Chuck van der Linden wrote: You really have to wonder how that business model flies.. doesn't seem like it would even come close to paying for the hardware alone, much less license fees for licensed OS's On Jan 13, 11:14 pm, Dave McNullamcnu...@gmail.com wrote: For $.50 a day we can run a VM in the cloud? I can hear Sally Struthers getting in on this. All around the world there are Watir scripts that can't run and play with web pages, but for pennies a day, you can help them find a home. Dave On Jan 13, 6:59 am, Emmanuel Cecchetcecc...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/13/2011 3:51 AM, Željko Filipin wrote:The Windows VM can be made available as Amazon EC2 AMIs for those who are willing to run their VMs in the cloud. Can they be shared? Yes. We can make these AMIs public for anyone to use. Basically the license price is included in the hourly rental price that is why Windows VMs are more expensive than Linux VMs ($0.12/hour vs $0.085/hour for a small instance). However for Watir purposes we should be able to use the new micro instances ($0.02/hour for Linux and $0.03/hour for Windows). I will keep you posted with my progress on this front. Emmanuel -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
[wtr-general] Re: Watir virtual appliances?
That might be something interesting to look into on the development side then.. could be a cheap way for example to give the water developers access to a system running Windows Server 2008R2 for example. On Jan 19, 10:51 am, Emmanuel Cecchet cecc...@gmail.com wrote: You need to do that at large scale to be cost effective (for the provider). Also you are not alone on the machine, multiple VMs are collocated per physical machine. If you want more powerful machines where you are almost sure of having dedicated hardware, prices rise quickly. You can check the prices here:http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ Note that if you want to give it a try, Amazon currently gives 750 micro instances hours free / month for one year to new users. Can be a good time for those who want to give it a try Emmanuel PS: I am not affiliated with Amazon, just using this platform for my research. On 1/19/2011 1:42 PM, Chuck van der Linden wrote: You really have to wonder how that business model flies.. doesn't seem like it would even come close to paying for the hardware alone, much less license fees for licensed OS's On Jan 13, 11:14 pm, Dave McNullamcnu...@gmail.com wrote: For $.50 a day we can run a VM in the cloud? I can hear Sally Struthers getting in on this. All around the world there are Watir scripts that can't run and play with web pages, but for pennies a day, you can help them find a home. Dave On Jan 13, 6:59 am, Emmanuel Cecchetcecc...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/13/2011 3:51 AM, Željko Filipin wrote: The Windows VM can be made available as Amazon EC2 AMIs for those who are willing to run their VMs in the cloud. Can they be shared? Yes. We can make these AMIs public for anyone to use. Basically the license price is included in the hourly rental price that is why Windows VMs are more expensive than Linux VMs ($0.12/hour vs $0.085/hour for a small instance). However for Watir purposes we should be able to use the new micro instances ($0.02/hour for Linux and $0.03/hour for Windows). I will keep you posted with my progress on this front. Emmanuel -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
Re: [wtr-general] Re: Watir virtual appliances?
Indeed, a couple of pennies from some people or resources to rock it out would be immensely appreciated. My current Windows VM is almost unusable, and I'm looking at a new machine. Limping along doesn't really help me much. We also need to pay for the upcoming Watir day. That's my 2 cents. :) Charley Baker Lead Developer, Watir, http://watir.com On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:38 AM, Chuck van der Linden sqa...@gmail.com wrote: That might be something interesting to look into on the development side then.. could be a cheap way for example to give the water developers access to a system running Windows Server 2008R2 for example. On Jan 19, 10:51 am, Emmanuel Cecchet cecc...@gmail.com wrote: You need to do that at large scale to be cost effective (for the provider). Also you are not alone on the machine, multiple VMs are collocated per physical machine. If you want more powerful machines where you are almost sure of having dedicated hardware, prices rise quickly. You can check the prices here:http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ Note that if you want to give it a try, Amazon currently gives 750 micro instances hours free / month for one year to new users. Can be a good time for those who want to give it a try Emmanuel PS: I am not affiliated with Amazon, just using this platform for my research. On 1/19/2011 1:42 PM, Chuck van der Linden wrote: You really have to wonder how that business model flies.. doesn't seem like it would even come close to paying for the hardware alone, much less license fees for licensed OS's On Jan 13, 11:14 pm, Dave McNullamcnu...@gmail.com wrote: For $.50 a day we can run a VM in the cloud? I can hear Sally Struthers getting in on this. All around the world there are Watir scripts that can't run and play with web pages, but for pennies a day, you can help them find a home. Dave On Jan 13, 6:59 am, Emmanuel Cecchetcecc...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/13/2011 3:51 AM, Željko Filipin wrote: The Windows VM can be made available as Amazon EC2 AMIs for those who are willing to run their VMs in the cloud. Can they be shared? Yes. We can make these AMIs public for anyone to use. Basically the license price is included in the hourly rental price that is why Windows VMs are more expensive than Linux VMs ($0.12/hour vs $0.085/hour for a small instance). However for Watir purposes we should be able to use the new micro instances ($0.02/hour for Linux and $0.03/hour for Windows). I will keep you posted with my progress on this front. Emmanuel -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
[wtr-general] Re: Watir virtual appliances?
For $.50 a day we can run a VM in the cloud? I can hear Sally Struthers getting in on this. All around the world there are Watir scripts that can't run and play with web pages, but for pennies a day, you can help them find a home. Dave On Jan 13, 6:59 am, Emmanuel Cecchet cecc...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/13/2011 3:51 AM, Željko Filipin wrote: The Windows VM can be made available as Amazon EC2 AMIs for those who are willing to run their VMs in the cloud. Can they be shared? Yes. We can make these AMIs public for anyone to use. Basically the license price is included in the hourly rental price that is why Windows VMs are more expensive than Linux VMs ($0.12/hour vs $0.085/hour for a small instance). However for Watir purposes we should be able to use the new micro instances ($0.02/hour for Linux and $0.03/hour for Windows). I will keep you posted with my progress on this front. Emmanuel -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
