Re: QEMU hosting

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

Updating this thread for the list, I have been told that
Cleber is looking at all these options for mainstream CI,
and is already in contact with fosshost.org.

I'll let him follow these ideas.

Regards,

Phil.

On 2/22/21 5:11 PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 2/22/21 5:07 PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> 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
> 
> And from https://fosshost.org/about:
> "We support most operating systems including CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu,
> ArchLinux and FreeBSD and custom OS."
> 
> Eventually we could add a pair of FreeBSD runners to our Gitlab CI?
> https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/install/freebsd.html
>
>>>>  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
>>>
>>
>