A server for nightly builds. (was: Nightly builds)

[Andrius da Costa Ribas]

> - Does anyone have free windows license  xp, vista, windows 7 ? 64
> releases ? I remember that some mdsn packages contains os licenses.

I do have a license from msdn academic alliance I do not use ( somehow
I cannot access the link right know ). I'm not sure which windows
versions are available there, I'm also not sure if this use can
infringe the license - case no problem these licenses can be used in
your servers ( I'm also not sure which windows versions are available
there but I believe there's at least both 32 and 64 versions )

2009/8/25 Casper van Donderen <casper.vandonderen at gmail.com>
>
> SuSE Enterprise. My high school runs two win server 2k8 instances on that since they need Windows. That is a quad-core with 8G RAM though...
>
> Casper
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralf Habacker <ralf.habacker at freenet.de>
>
> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:55:18
> To: KDE on Windows<kde-windows at kde.org>
> Subject: Re: A server for nightly builds.  (was: Nightly builds)
>
>
> Bernhard Reiter schrieb:
> > Am Dienstag, 25. August 2009 13:51:26 schrieb Ralf Habacker:
> >
> >>  If the build server would be hosted also on 1&1 one can
> >> benefit from the big pipe (about 6MB/s) between both servers for quickly
> >> release transfering.
> >> They have also a separate ftp backup space and a separated firewall
> >> which reduce the maintaince on the server (I installed already some
> >> windows and linux servers in this way )
> >>
> >
> > I wonder if using VirtualBox on a GNU/Linux machine would be an option:
> >
> - sounds good
> > Pros:
> > + Can run more than once build process simultaniously,
> >
> and specific platform test vm's could be created to check functionality
> for a specific windows os
> > + more flexible with  the needed windows variant.
> >
> agreed
> > + More separation from the internet, possibly less maintenance effort in
> >     keeping stuff secure
> >
> yes, in the opposite some more efforts required on the host, see network
> issue below
> > + Server rent less expensive, so we get more computing power for less
> >
> > Cons:
> > - A speed cost of running VirtualServer
> >
> seems no problem on a server  with good performance - from
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtualBox "VirtualBox achieves a
> performance that is comparable to that of VMware"
> > - A little less native, though this should not matter for the builds.
> >
> the drawback is that harddisc of a will probably be huge - i guess about
> 25-40 GB for a single vm.
> > - We need to buy windows licenses separately and manage them if we
> >    build in parallel
> >
> - Does anyone have free windows license  xp, vista, windows 7 ? 64
> releases ? I remember that some mdsn packages contains os licenses.
>
> Some notes:
> - On many root server there is - in vmware terms - "no bridged network"
> possible.  According to
> http://kex.cc/2006/09/16/vmware-auf-einem-rootserver-betreiben/ (only
> german)  vm's have to use nat and on the host a private network has to
> be installed
>
> There are also the following questions:
> - Which linux os is prefered ?   (I personally only have knowledge with
> opensuse)
> - Does anyone have experience installing virtualbox on a root server ?
> - Does anyone have enough knowledge to deal with the above mentioned
> network issues ?
>
> Ralf
>
>
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