[Buildbot-devel] Big fat buildbot example

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> Hmm.  You can certainly just use it on your workstation,
> but yes, it's supposed to automatically install everything
> needed, and should work on very bare installs.  I certainly
> used virtual machines heavily while testing it, and I deploy
> it inside virtual machines in practice.
>
>> recommending using a virtualization tool like virtualbox to set them
>> up.
>
> Except that virtualbox explodes when I try running lxc inside it,
> ( http://www.mail-archive.com/lxc-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg04027.html )
> so I'd probably recommend vmware player.

It'd be great to include that recommendation then..

Virtualbox has the advantage of being specified in a text format (so
we could ship enough scripts that the entire master and slave
environment could be built with a single shell command).  Ideally this
would be as simple as the regular tutorial to get up and running, so
that users can focus on playing around with things, rather than setup.

>> John, since you're mentioned in the README.txt, do you think you could
>> spare the time to do so?
>
> If that's all it takes, I could mention other people, too :-)

Let's see how well it works ;)

Dustin