Re: Generating Kernel module for Other Computers

[Arkady <arkady dot miasnikov at gmail dot com>]

>
> I think I see where you are coming from. But, your situation might not
> be the same as Daniel's situation.
>
> Even in your situation, you say you've got 3-5 different
> distributions. With the existing client/server mechanism, you should
> only need 1 vm/system per distro - not one per kernel. Each vm/system
> can support multiple kernels from that distro. For example, in
> Daniel's case he's trying to support Centos 6.9. One Centos 6.9
> VM/system server can support multiple Centos 6.9 kernels.
>

Indeed I do not keep a VM per kernel. I do in the lab where I run
tests, but not on the build server. And even the former can be made to
reuse the VM by replacing the kernel. The argument of 20GB x 10VM
still stands.

> (As I mentioned earlier, we're moving in the direction of using
> containers, but we aren't there yet.)

We talked about this before. I would love to help the project because
meanwhile, as you know and can see, I brought up a system with some,
arguably ugly shortcuts. For example, I hard coded package
dependencies, I install the packages by uncompressing them. I have a
rudimental support for parallel build, but not for testing and so on.


>
> --
> David Smith
> Principal Software Engineer
> Red Hat