[SAC] Virtual Machines for Services

[Mateusz Loskot]

Daniel Morissette wrote:
> Frank Warmerdam wrote:
>>
>> Anyways, before we invest to much time and energy setting up VMs for
>> buildslaves (for instance), I'd love to see us have a discussion as
>> a group and decide on a VM technology we are interested in committing
>> to.
>>
>
> I've heard very good things about OpenVZ from someone using dozens of
> VMs on a farm of servers, including some very high traffic sites:
>
>    http://openvz.org/
>
> The main advantage of OpenVZ over VMWare and many others is performance
> since it makes better use of system resources. Unfortunately I don't
> know much more than that about it and never had time to look at it.

The disadvantage I see is:

"OpenVZ is limited in that it requires both the host and
guest OS to be Linux"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVZ

For Buildbot purposes, we need to be able to host both, Linux and Windows.

Cheers
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Mateusz Loskot
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