It seems no one is providing this service to the OpenSolaris community. If I am correct in the fact that this service doesn't exist, and if there is enough interest, there is a very good chance that I will be able to find a way to this service available to the community.
If you are interested, or know others that are interested, please speak up now. (I know I would be interested, if it meant I didn't have to maintain my own ratsnest server farm of obsolete Sun hardwarein my house.) :) Some of my thoughts on why this would be useful: 1) A place to test code against various OS builds. 2) Build box for compiling individual contributions. (e.g. - sfwnv packages) 3) Having available Solaris "machines" for upstream software providers to build and test Solaris packages. (IE: Giving the GNU maintainers their own VM to build, test and package their software on Solaris) 3) VMs for building and testing entire distros. 4) Multiple instances to compare behavior of different OS versions. 5) Instances where docs community members like myself can experiment with the OS to validate said procedures. 6) Instances to test OS features like zones. 7) Place for people to setup multiple instances to test routing and other networking features. 8) A place to test building and installing builds against VMWare ESX, for those that don't have access. 9) Provide a standardized hardware platform for testing 10) Lower barrier of entry for OpenSolaris development. (No need to find your own compatible hardware, and develop Solaris sysadmin/installation skills). (This is more for people who want to add apps and what not) 11) If you just want to play with an updated SXCE build, you can just play with it in a VM, before deciding to install it to native hardware. Possible other uses: ----------------------------- 1) Place for people to test iSCSI (Not sure if this is possible from within VMWare) 2) Place for people to test pNFS (Not sure if this is possible from within VMWare) 3) Potentially a place to test ZFS, but I'm not sure the feasibility (Not sure if this is possible from within VMWare) 4) If people need things like wikis, source repositories, etc, it will be easy enough to set that up for them. (Or let them set it up themselves) Cheers, Brian -- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
