[Python-Dev] Still looking for volunteer to run Windows buildbot

[Neal Norwitz]

On 3/29/06, Gregory P. Smith <greg at electricrain.com> wrote:
>
> This is an ideal job for VMWare on an existing linux build machine if
> someone can ante up a win xp and msvc++ license to the cause.

It probably isn't great from a practical point of view if you wanted
to run buildbot for both the server and host platforms.  The problem
is that jobs for both platforms will be scheduled concurrently.  If
checkins occur in both 2.5 and 2.4 as is somewhat common, you would be
running 4 test suites simultaneously.  The full suite already takes
quite a bit of time (over 20 minutes depending on the box).  The
machine could be crushed if we run 4.

If you just wanted to run Windows in VMware, that would be fine.  We
already have 3 windows buildbots of the XP and 2k variety.  Other
varieties might be desirable.

n