Re: QEMU hosting

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 2/22/21 4:56 PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Hi Thomas and Stefan,
> 
> On 1/5/21 7:55 PM, Fosshost wrote:
>> Hi Stefan
>>
>> Thank you for your email.
>>
>>  1. We do not offer MacOS hosting
>>  2. We can provide virtual machines with full KVM virt on x86
>>     architecture and soon arm64 v8
>>  3. We do not provide dedicated servers.
> 
> Would it be possible to have a dedicated VM for a git LFS server [*]?

Just noticed the Mirrors-as-a-Service option "(available for package
mirrors, operating systems, repositories, documentation, static assets,
etc)":

https://docs.fosshost.org/en/home/getting-started#production-services
https://docs.fosshost.org/en/home/mirrors-as-a-service

> If so, what storage is usable? Are there network traffic limits?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Phil.
> 
> [*] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/topics/git/lfs/
> 
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> *From:* Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
>> *Sent:* 05 January 2021 14:21
>> *To:* Fosshost <admin@fosshost.org>
>> *Cc:* qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
>> *Subject:* QEMU hosting
>>  
>> Hi Thomas,
>> In November you emailed qemu-devel asking if the QEMU project was
>> interested in exploring hosting with Fosshost.org. I think my reply
>> may have gotten lost so I wanted to check if you have time to discuss
>> this again.
>>
>> The main hosting need that QEMU has is for continuous integration
>> system runners. We are particularly interested in non-x86/non-Linux
>> build machines and a dedicated server for reproducible performance
>> tests. Just today there was discussion on #qemu IRC about how to go
>> about adding a macOS build machine, for example.
>>
>> It would be great to find out more about Fosshost.org and whether we
>> can work together.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Stefan
>