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["Yury V. Zaytsev" <yury@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 17:34 +0300, Dmitry Polevoy wrote:
> I think I can organize nightly builds for Windows (32 bit) in
> Cognitive. But we are not able to make building and testing in xNix.

Actually, after I've read more about what XEN is able to provide us with
ATM, I find this solution more and more compelling. What we need is
basically:

1) A headless machine with reasonable hardware (~2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo,
supporting VT-x, e.g. Wolfdale, 2x250 SATA HDDs, 4-8 Gb of RAM, 2 NICs)

2) IP-KVM for remote management (great, but not absolute necessity)

3) Reliable Internet connection

Then we simply set up CentOS 5 x86_64 as a privileged administrative
domain (dom0) and a number of minimal installations (w/o X.Org and
stuff, only complete dev tools, reasonable userland stuff and ssh) as
domU for the other OSes (Linux, BSD, XP), both i386 and x86_64 using
hardware vitalization. OSes will run at near native speed in terms of
CPU, I/O will be quite slow, but this is not really a concern.

The management can be done using XEN's embedded VNC server (for
Windows-inclined: read Radmin) for each OS and SSH tunnels for Unix-like
systems.

I think that ~512 Mb RAM would be more then enough for each of those, so
4 Gb gives us 8 OSes to test upon.

I don't have prior experience with XEN, but I have been administrating
~5 CentOS boxes for the past few years, and it's a very admin-friendly
distribution that comes with lots of prepackaged and pre-configured
stuff, so I can somehow help to set things up in my spare time...

Just a few thoughts.
 
-- 
Sincerely yours,
Yury V. Zaytsev