[OpenAFS-devel] qemu arm slave for buildbot

[Derrick Brashear]

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Phillip Moore
<w.phillip.moore@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Doesn't look too terribly difficult to set up, but I don't have much in t=
he
> way of hardware to offer. =A0 Is there any reason we can't use VMs for th=
ese
> build machines?

Some are. I have 3 VMs to configure and donate to the pool, when I
have a couple minutes.

>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.

That works.

> I run my EFS development environment exclusively on VMs, and the host OS =
is
> MacOS X on a MacMini. =A0 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?

yup.