On 22 September 2017 at 16:51, Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]> wrote: > On 22/09/2017 14:05, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On 20 September 2017 at 19:50, Peter Tribble <[email protected]> wrote: >>> To introduce myself: I'm a member of the illumos community (the successor >>> to OpenSolaris, to those unfamiliar with us), and I maintain my own illumos >>> distribution. >>> >>> Having seen the scary 'SUPPORT FOR THIS HOST OS WILL GO AWAY' >>> message, I'm reaching out to see what needs to be done so that support for >>> SunOS (not just illumos, I include Oracle's Solaris in the same family) >>> needs to be kept and, where possible, enhanced. >>> >>> I'm willing to act as a contact in this effort, and can work with others in >>> the illumos community to see if there are other resources we can bring to >>> bear. >> >> Hi; thanks for getting in touch with us. Kamil Rytarowski (who I've >> cc'd) is also interested in keeping Solaris-variant support working. >> >> Essentially what we need as upstream is: >> * access to a machine which we can use for our continuous >> integration build testing, so we don't break compile >> support for the platform. This is ideally a machine that >> somebody else admins and we just use (because we don't >> want to become solaris/illumos admins ;-)), but failing >> that, instructions on how to get a VM running under >> KVM on Linux would also be OK (that's how we've ended >> up handling the BSDs) > > I would even reverse the order since now we're handling the BSDs using > the VM test infrastructure. Let's say having both would be best.
I only have the one beefy machine to run VMs on, so the more OSes we handle via VMs the more overloaded it gets. Also, everything we have as a VM is another thing I have to maintain and presumably update from time to time... thanks -- PMM
