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Bootstrap Debian images for virtualized environments
http://bootstrap-vz.readthedocs.io/
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Get GPU instances running #100

Open andsens opened 10 years ago

andsens commented 10 years ago

bootstrap-vz can currently not bootstrap EC2 GPU instance AMIs. The appropriate drivers should maybe also be installed.

rybaktomasz commented 10 years ago

It consists of two parts. One will be solved when #100 is fixed, and another is related to the drivers - but IMO it can be done in manifest.

andsens commented 10 years ago

but IMO it can be done in manifest.

True. But why make the user go through the hassle when we can just make it a provider specific switch? There's versions, proper cleanup and all that jazz which I'd rather like us to handle.

rybaktomasz commented 10 years ago

Oh yeah, you are right. I think that we might want to have some switch (with plugin?) to decide whether to install free (nouveau) or non-free drivers, and for the latter whether to install latest drivers or legacy ones.

andsens commented 10 years ago

Agreed. Though:

or legacy ones.

What's the motivation for installing those?

rybaktomasz commented 10 years ago

I was thinking about using this for testing of GPGPU packages, and I'd like to test them with different drivers - one from testing, unstable, even experimental. But you are right that such a possibility might be to much for general-purpose HVM images.

andsens commented 10 years ago

Right now I am working on getting a testing framework up and running, the goal is to make it possible to combine all kinds of different manifest-chunks so that we can try out as much as possible. Once everything is automated, agile development should be quite a bit easier, meaning getting all your combinations working would be much less of a hassle.

Right now I am trying to get remote building to work, I need that for various complicated reasons on my machine for testing unless I want to run virtualbox inside virtualbox... which I don't :-)

andsens commented 9 years ago

Just a ping for you on this one @rybaktomasz. The integration testing is now up and running :-)