Auto-building emulator downloads

[Danny Clark]

Hi Mike,

I'm Danny, the new OLPC sys admin. We should def be able to get you
space somewhere to do this, although it won't happen immediatly due to
my current load. Could you open a ticket on http://dev.laptop.org with
details (approx resource requirements, etc) and assign it to me
(djbclark)?

Thanks,
-- 
Daniel Clark # Sys Admin, One Laptop per Child
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# http://planyp.us/djbclark # http://dclark.us

On 9/16/07, Mike C. Fletcher <mcfletch at vrplumber.com> wrote:
> C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> > We've been running and building qemu images on xs-dev; you might
> > consider doing root-stuff on a machine which is not dev.  xs-dev
> > already has qemu, etc installed.
> >
> Seems like the building of the VMWare/VirtualBox images has been
> temporarily shunted off to "too busy" status [1], so I guess it's up to
> me to do get it arranged in the near term.  I've modified the
> image-building script so that it knows the build numbers (instead of
> using timestamps).  I'd like to have the script cron'd up so that it
> runs every X period and picks up the latest devel releases.
>
> I can only to run it every week-or-so on my workstation due to a
> limited-bandwidth account between me and the OLPC servers (both very
> slow and having a low total transfer cap).  Current script only requires
> a qemu install, no root required.
>
>     bzr branch http://www.vrplumber.com/bzr/buildemulator
>
> Scott, picking up on your (possible, implied) offer, any chance we could
> run that conversion/upload script on xs-dev?  It would require that we
> have a no-password-required ssh key on xs-dev that would give that
> account access to my dev.laptop.org account to do the uploads.  Other
> than that there shouldn't be too many issues (maybe storage space, but
> we can change the script to delete the results after upload to fix that,
> I leave the results around so that I can test the vmdk's and see if they
> work).  If it's not practical to run on xs-dev, no problem, I'll run the
> script here each week.
>
> Current images are not running under VMWare or VirtualBox[2], but the
> old 557 image is running with the conversion process as currently
> written (it no longer creates VMI files), so it seems like we have a
> real regression there, rather than a problem with the conversion.  I'm
> producing .zip files for download so that both Win32 and Linux/Unix
> users can access them easily.
> > Don't worry too much about upgrading -- as long as your developer
> > tools are in /home/olpc they will be preserved across updates by the
> > upgrade magic which is going to land on Monday.
> >  --scott
> >
> Is that magic already in-place?  If so, how is it getting triggered, and
> does it go to the latest version?  Or is it only going to "stable"
> versions?  That is, can a developer just run their VMWare image and have
> it automatically update itself to the latest build over the network?
>
> Anyway, have fun,
> Mike
>
> [1] https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/3112
> [2] https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/3503
>
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