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[Martin Pool <mbp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2009/10/8 Stuart Bishop <stuart.bishop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> jml asked for ideas, so I put one out there to kick start things :-) The
>  advantages of a VM:
>
> - The environment is consistent between development setups, staging and
> production systems. We get pretty close as it is, but this approach gets
> closer.
>
> - We get a work around for the well known ports issue. PostgreSQL on port
> 5432, Apache on port 80 and 443, Librarian, mock services, soon memcached
> and rabbitmq - all are fundamentally the same problem and we need to solve
> them all if we ever want to run multiple instances of the test suite or
> parallelize it on the same box.

Could they be configured to all run on 127.0.0.something?

> Our process should include a restartable mechanism for getting the Launchpad
> tree or priming your repository. For most of the world without high
> bandwidth to London, you really have to pull it down in small batches of
> revisions or using rsync as a simple 'bzr branch lp:launchpad' is unlikely
> to actually ever complete.

yes, it's a bzr bug, we hope to fix it.
-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>