Re: YBD & Aboriginal vs. VirtualBox

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.