[advocacy-discuss] [Fwd: OpenSolaris Test Farm Development Zones and Open Access]

[Jim Grisanzio]

Jim, thanks so much for this. This is an excellent service to offer the 
OpenSolaris User Groups around the world. I'm forwarding to osug-leaders 
as well. -- Jim


On 01/09/09 03:30, Jim Walker wrote:
> Any OpenSolaris user including User Groups can
> use the test farm systems now.
>
> Cheers,
> Jim
>
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>
> Subject:
> OpenSolaris Test Farm Development Zones and Open Access
> From:
> Jim Walker <James.Walker at Sun.COM>
> Date:
> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:33:52 -0700
> To:
> testing-discuss at opensolaris.org
>
> To:
> testing-discuss at opensolaris.org
>
>
> Development Zones
>
> The OpenSolaris Test Farm virtual machine interface is ready for
> use by OpenSolaris contributors. This interface allows users to
> reserve whole root development zones where they can build and test
> software prior to contributing to the OpenSolaris code base.
> Damian Wojsław and Michal Bielicki from the Software Porters
> Community will be managing the first two zone servers.
>
> Currently, the zones utilize Solaris Express builds, but we will
> be switching to native OpenSolaris builds in a few weeks. We also
> will be adding xVM and LDOM servers that will support OpenSolaris
> guest accounts.
>
> Open Access
>
> In addition to adding these new development and test resources,
> we have changed the access requirements so that any OpenSolaris
> user can access the test farm (ie. the Sun Contributor Agreement
> is no longer needed to access most of the machines).
>
> OpenSolaris users can access the test farm at:
> http://test.opensolaris.org/testfarm
>
> Information on the OpenSolaris test farm is at:
> http://opensolaris.org/os/community/testing/testfarm
>
> Information on the test farm zone implementation is at:
> http://opensolaris.org/os/community/testing/testfarm/zones
>
> Other recent test farm development includes:
>
> - user group access control
> - short, medium and long term account reservations
> - email notifications
> - server live upgrades
> - better user login statistics
> - better account history tracking
> - remote desktop testing
>
> Cheers,
> Jim
>

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