[opensolaris-summit] Minutes of the 9/18 Summit Meetings

[Jim Walker]

Roland Mainz wrote:
> Erm, AFAIK the test farm is non-interactive (e.g. you can't do something
> like "login and hack the kernel to death"), right ?

If you mean the test farm we are setting up for OpenSolaris, then it is
fully "interactive". It allows you to get access to a nice new test
machine that is bare metal with an os build, that you can use to test
your opensolaris software. You get root access, so you can hack away.

If you want early access to it, signup to be a beta tester:
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/testing/testfarm/

> The idea of the five machines was to have one "central hub" which is
> user-land only (e.g. nooone except two or three people have "root"
> access) which handles SunRay services, home dirs (which are exported to
> the four other machines), jumpstart and has some development tools
> (compiler, OS/Net build tools etc.) installed and then 2x x86 and 2x
> SPARC machines to boot custom kernels from the server on demand.  This
> stuff is only thought to give people the opportunity to stick their
> heads together and try some stuff without having to improvise something
> with laptops (or worse) ...

Since it looks like the network will be good, I plan on having some
test farm machines available remotely for the summit, in addition to
whatever we have locally.

That said, I agree with many that at this stage in organization development,
the summit should focus on discussions that inform the community on where we
are at, and where we would like to go, which have the effect of fostering
contributions to the overall strategy of OpenSolaris.

But, we should have time during mornings, evenings and breaks to work
specific hardware and software issues and do installs. And, what you
map out above looks good. I don't know who is providing this and what
the limits are though. Some virtualization on the machines may make
them go farther.

Cheers,
Jim

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