Auto-building emulator downloads

[Danny Clark]

Sorry I seem to be dense this morning... I just reassigned 3112 to myself;
please go ahead and update it with more details (hom much disk space you
will probably need etc) however.

On 9/19/07, Danny Clark <danny at laptop.org> wrote:
>
> 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
> # http://laptop.org  # http://opensysadmin.com
> # 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
> >
> > --
> > ________________________________________________
> >   Mike C. Fletcher
> >   Designer, VR Plumber, Coder
> >   http://www.vrplumber.com
> >   http://blog.vrplumber.com
> >
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