Hi, See the exchange below. I'm curious if there is anybody reading this who would want to manage a bunch of Virtualbox VM's, if we had a server *devoted* solely to running them, all for making Sage build in a much wider range of distros. This would take a person with a very particular set of skills and interests... in like maybe installing the top 10 linux distros or something like that.
-- William ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> Date: Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 1:12 PM Subject: Re: vm's To: William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> On 2012-08-27 16:53, William Stein wrote: > Hi Jeroen, > > If you could have access to a fast opteron machine on which Virtual > Machines would run *really* well, what is a list of the VM's you would > want installed? E.g., versions of Linux (etc.)? I'm going to ask the > NSF to let me rebudget some Sage Days money to hardware, and this > seems like a good use of resources. I can get a 1U box with 64GB RAM > and 16 3.0Ghz cores, call it sagebox.math.washington.edu, put up to > maybe 16 VM's on it, and devote it to build testing of sage on various > OS's. Managing a bunch of VM's can be a pain, but I have to do it > anyways for http://salv.us, so I'm getting efficient/good at it. > > Anyway if you gave me a list and expressed enthusiasm for this idea, > it would make it that much easier to get the money. Some immediate and obvious question: are you sure you want to manage those 16 VM's? I assume your salv.us VM's are all identical, which makes the sys-admin job a lot easier. If we put different distro's on those machines, you would have to know the equivalent of "apt-get install" for all those different distro's. -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en.
