Re: YBD & Aboriginal vs. VirtualBox

On 2016-02-26 12:54, Sam Thursfield wrote: > On 24/02/16 11:40, Rob Taylor wrote: >> On 24/02/16 10:19, Sam Thursfield wrote: >> I could imagine the approach Tristan is taking would work >> excellently on >> a large powerful x86 server (especially with the distcc aspect) - >> could >> be even better if the qemu tcq-multithread work pans out [1]. It >> also >> seems that this is possible to run as non-root from Tristan's >> recent mail. >> >> So, simplest approach for this class of users would simply to be to >> provide logins on a largish x86 build box! (and the box can be >> managed >> by central IT/IS) > > Good idea, that might be enough. In fact from my limited experience > I > would say 'remote access to a UNIX box from Windows' is not an > uncommon developer setup in big companies. The 'Morph distbuild' > build > server approach seems to have caused some bad feeling about the > whole > concept of a build server, but this would be totally different as > devs > would be using real shell accounts, so it'd be simpler to get access > to the real staging area, when trying to debug build failures. Plus, tbd can do multi-instance on vlarge machines... it's fast like distbuild, without the complexity :)