[gentoo-qa] Running a tinderbox instance

[gentoo-qa] Running a tinderbox instance

[Academic Sam]

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Dear all,


 I've been a Gentoo user since 2003 and been programming in UNIX/C,C++ since
late 80's. Currently I'm teaching at a Canadian university.

After seeing Diego's blog post about possible ways to contribute to running
tinderbox, I thought I can try to help.


 I have access to a machine that is primarily used for teaching, but is not
used too frequently. This machine has four quad core xeon processors, 48G
memory, a 80G SSD and 2Tb disk space. It currently runs Gentoo and is
maintained by me. So, this can be used to run an instance of tinderbox.


 Since this is on our university network, it is not possible to let someone
else access it. So, I will have to do all the work in setting up and running
it (and I'm willing). To minimize disruptions to the current setup, I'd like
to run it in a separate virtual machine/chroot whatever.


So, if this is useful and if someone is willing to spend a bit of time
helping me get started, I'll be very happy to get involved and contributing
something back to Gentoo community.
-- 
Sam
PS: I'm currently administering about 6 Gentoo servers, have sent a handful
of bug reports and have written an ebuild or two. This may help gauge how
much hand-holding I may need.

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Re: [gentoo-qa] Running a tinderbox instance

[Diego Elio Pettenò]

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Hi Sam,

Il giorno ven, 07/01/2011 alle 10.15 -0500, Academic Sam ha scritto:
> Since this is on our university network, it is not possible to let
> someone else access it. So, I will have to do all the work in setting
> up and running it (and I'm willing). To minimize disruptions to the
> current setup, I'd like to run it in a separate virtual machine/chroot
> whatever. 

I planned on writing actual usage documentation for the tinderbox this
past week but between a flue and a cold I'm in a bit of a pinch with
stuff. So I'll summarise here what you'd have to look at as it is.

The code to run the tinderbox is mostly self-contained in the git
repository at

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/flameeyes-tinderbox.git;a=summary

it doesn't require much in term of software; you can easily run it on
either KVM (but I found the I/O hit too big on my system) or within an
LXC instance. A non-namespaced chroot will likely cause you trouble.

You can use a network-isolated instance by providing it with a proxy to
use, otherwise it'll access network normally (some tests might make use
of network connectivity, and not all of it is SFW).

Just run ./tinderbox-continuous.sh and it should take care of everything
alone, if you still have any doubts please feel free to ask so that I
know what to document exactly.

-- 
Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
http://blog.flameeyes.eu/


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Re: [gentoo-qa] Running a tinderbox instance

[Academic Sam]

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On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò <flameeyes@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> it doesn't require much in term of software; you can easily run it on
> either KVM (but I found the I/O hit too big on my system) or within an
> LXC instance. A non-namespaced chroot will likely cause you trouble.
>
>
>
Hello Diego,

Thanks for the reply. I was hoping to avoid LXC or KVM as I'm not very
familiar with it. But, I guess this is my chance to learn :) So, I'll get
started on setting it up and bug you if I run in to trouble. May take a
while as I juggle this with my other duties, but will keep at it. Will send
an update to this list once I make some progress.

Regards
-- 
Sam

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