[phobos] auto-tester update

[Sean Kelly]

OSX desktop won't virtualize--the vm vendors enforce the license. Could use OSX server instead, but...

I'll sort out OSX testing this week with brad. It will just be a matter of some setup on my end. 

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On Feb 20, 2011, at 6:16 PM, Brad Roberts <braddr at puremagic.com> wrote:

> On 2/20/2011 6:00 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Brad Roberts wrote:
>>> On 2/20/2011 5:25 PM, David Simcha wrote:
>>> 
>>>> What's wrong with virtualization as a solution to the one-box-per-platform problem?  Just use your favorite OS as your
>>>> host, get a ton of RAM, and run all the rest in VMs.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> It's a solution, but not a great one.  The build runs are already cpu bound, so diving up the cpu's just means
>>> everything goes slower.
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> My experience with virtual boxes is they get wiped out every time you do an update on the host. Extremely annoying. I
>> use a separate box per OS. Something to do with the old machines around here :-)
> 
> Your experience, of once.  Let's just say that I've got a bit of experience running virtualized environments (I do work
> in amazon's ec2 org after all).  I'd consider it if I had boxes large enough to be worth subdividing.  On the other
> hand, freebsd until 8.2-rc1 (and pre-releases of 9, ie, no released) doesn't support running on xen.  osx's license
> doesn't allow running it virtualized, if I remember right.  That just leaves opensolaris which does run on top of xen,
> but I've never tried it myself.
> 
> Anyway.. just need to add osx, which Sean is helping with, and we'll have all of our primary platforms auto-testing d2.
> 
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