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[Karl Fogel <karl.fogel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Jelmer, Julian, and Martin for your replies.  I've updated
https://dev.launchpad.net/Running to mention VMs and to link to the
appropriate places in this thread.

-Karl

Julian Edwards <ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>On Monday 24 May 2010 11:10:06 Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
>> On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 23:56 -0400, Karl Fogel wrote:
>> > I've heard (second hand) that some developers have found it very useful
>> > to do their Launchpad development in VMs.  Then you can hose your
>> > Postgres DBs with impunity, not worry about running rocketfuel-setup as
>> > root, not worry about modifying /etc/hosts, etc.
>> > 
>> > Does anyone here have experience doing Launchpad development in a VM?
>> > And if so, would you like to document it in the wiki, probably linked to
>> > from https://dev.launchpad.net/Running?  Even just a brief mention of
>> > what VM package you used, along with any special configuration, would
>> > help -- at least it would remind people that this route is available.
>> > 
>> > (Note we already have https://dev.launchpad.net/Running/Schroot linked
>> > from Running, offering similar benefits.  But IIUC going the full VM
>> > route is somewhat different from just running in a chroot jail.)
>> 
>> I'm running two Lucid VM's in KVM to be able to run the testsuite in two
>> branches sat the same time. There isn't much special about my setup
>> (it's just a plain Lucid install in both VMs with Launchpad installed),
>> but I can document it if you like.
>
>I used to do the same thing - I used vmbuilder to make a basic server VM image 
>and then ran rf-setup in it.  It's really very trivial and no different to 
>standard LP development.
>
>The reason I stopped doing this is because it makes the tests run very slowly 
>compared to normal.