Dear all
Would it be possible, may I ask, for the QEMU website to be updated to show that Fosshost is supporting the project?
The fosshost logo with a link back to https://fosshost.org will be more than sufficient, or just a link in footer / sponsor's page (if you have one).
In addition, we're currently experiencing significant growth and are looking at the more established/larger projects we work with, to understand whether there may be an opportunity for financial donation. In short, we need to take on full time members of staff
in order to run our service. Your time and attention in this would be greatly appreciated if you could afford it to us.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards,
Thomas Markey
Chief Executive & Founder
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From: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Sent: 23 February 2021 11:41
To: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>; Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>; Fosshost <admin@fosshost.org>
Cc: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>; Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>; Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: QEMU hosting
Sent: 23 February 2021 11:41
To: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>; Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>; Fosshost <admin@fosshost.org>
Cc: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>; Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>; Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: QEMU hosting
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
>>>
>>
>
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
>>>
>>
>