Re: QEMU hosting

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

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
>>
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