On 28 August 2012 20:55, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
It sounds an awlful job. Realistically to do it properly, there should be VMs for not just the latest version, but older versions too. Perhaps up to say two years old. Also one should really look at installing beta versions of the OS, so we know in advance if the next version of $some_distribution is going to cause a problem. So for 10 distributions, that's probably 50 or so virtual machines. If each was given 6 GB RAM, which is not an unreasonable amount, that would amount to 300 GB of RAM for just virtual machines. If you only restrict yourself to the latest version of the operating system, then it seems you wont catch the problems that people have, as a lot of the Linux issues seem to be a result of there being little or no attention paid to backwards compatibility with Linux. That seems like a LOT of work to do properly, and if not done properly, you are probaby wasting your time. Dave -- 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.
