OpenSolaris

Jim, thanks so much for this. This is an excellent service to offer the OpenSolaris User Groups around the world. I'm forwarding to osug-leaders as well. -- Jim


On 01/09/09 03:30, Jim Walker wrote:

Any OpenSolaris user including User Groups can
use the test farm systems now.

Cheers,
Jim

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Development Zones

The OpenSolaris Test Farm virtual machine interface is ready for
use by OpenSolaris contributors. This interface allows users to
reserve whole root development zones where they can build and test
software prior to contributing to the OpenSolaris code base.
Damian Wojsław and Michal Bielicki from the Software Porters
Community will be managing the first two zone servers.

Currently, the zones utilize Solaris Express builds, but we will
be switching to native OpenSolaris builds in a few weeks. We also
will be adding xVM and LDOM servers that will support OpenSolaris
guest accounts.

Open Access

In addition to adding these new development and test resources,
we have changed the access requirements so that any OpenSolaris
user can access the test farm (ie. the Sun Contributor Agreement
is no longer needed to access most of the machines).

OpenSolaris users can access the test farm at:
http://test.opensolaris.org/testfarm

Information on the OpenSolaris test farm is at:
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/testing/testfarm

Information on the test farm zone implementation is at:
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/testing/testfarm/zones

Other recent test farm development includes:

- user group access control
- short, medium and long term account reservations
- email notifications
- server live upgrades
- better user login statistics
- better account history tracking
- remote desktop testing

Cheers,
Jim