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auth=pass smtp.auth=CUSA124A263 smtp.mailfrom=berrange@redhat.com X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Received-SPF: pass client-ip=170.10.129.124; envelope-from=berrange@redhat.com; helo=us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com X-Spam_score_int: -34 X-Spam_score: -3.5 X-Spam_bar: --- X-Spam_report: (-3.5 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIMWL_WL_HIGH=-0.701, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H4=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: Daniel =?utf-8?B?UC4gQmVycmFuZ8Op?= Cc: Thomas Huth , Yonggang Luo , =?utf-8?Q?Marc-Andr=C3=A9?= Lureau , Philippe =?utf-8?Q?Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9?= , QEMU Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 01:52:57PM +0000, Alex Bennée wrote: > > Philippe Mathieu-Daudé writes: > > > On 11/16/21 08:05, Marc-André Lureau wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 6:31 PM Philippe Mathieu-Daudé >> > wrote: > >> > >> On 11/15/21 15:06, Thomas Huth wrote: > >> > Gitlab also provides runners with Windows, we can use them to > >> > test compilation with MSYS2, in both, 64-bit and 32-bit. > >> > > >> > However, it takes quite a long time to set up the VM, so to > >> > stay in the 1h time frame, we can only compile and check one > >> > target here. > >> > >> > >> I wonder why gitlab does not offer the docker executor. On the > >> freedesktop gitlab instance, they have windows docker executor, which > >> speeds up the build time. Maybe we could also have our own Windows > >> runner for qemu? > > > > We could, foss.org provides the QEMU project with x86 VMs resources > > we are not using. What we miss is a sysadmin willing to setup & > > maintain a such runner. > > I think we might also have Azure credits from MS, but the same issues > about admin and setup probably exist. I've never explored this in any way, but IIUC, Azure should have ability to run *windows* containers. If that's possible, then we could avoid the admin burden of a VM and just use throwaway windows containers as we do for Linux. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|