[nycbug-talk] Small hardware request

[Justin Dearing]

I thought qemu was the fastest out there? Are you compiling all the ports?
I don't know what fast enough is for you, but I'm able to build RPMs from
source just fine with the smallest linux VM azure will give you. Ditto for
single core Virtualbox and hyper-V vms.


On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 7:47 PM, Brian Callahan <bcallah at devio.us> wrote:

> On 1/4/2014 6:59 PM, Justin Dearing wrote:
>
>> Brian,
>>
>> Out of curosity, is there a point to testing the i386 ports on bare
>> metal as opposed to a VM or is it just the hardware you have on hand?
>>
>>
> QEMU is terribly slow...
>
> ~Brian
>
>  Justin
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Brian Callahan <bcallah at devio.us
>> <mailto:bcallah at devio.us>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi talk --
>>
>>     I have a tiny hardware request: if someone has an old AGP ATI/AMD
>>     graphics card they have lying around and are willing to part with, I
>>     would be much appreciative. This is for the machine I use for my
>>     i386 ports testing; the old GPU card died.
>>
>>     It need not be high end or anything, as long as it's ATI/AMD that's
>>     all I need.
>>
>>     Please contact me off-list. If you're coming to the meeting on
>>     Wednesday, I can take it from you then.
>>
>>     Thanks!
>>
>>     ~Brian
>>
>
>
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