Dragonfly on GCE

[Rickard von Essen]

Hi Brad,

I have a working packer build of DragonFly BSD
https://github.com/boxcutter/bsd.

The most interesting parts are the boot_command
https://github.com/boxcutter/bsd/blob/master/dragonflybsd.json#L5
and actual installer script
https://github.com/boxcutter/bsd/blob/master/http/install.sh.dfly

Rickard von Essen

On 9 December 2017 at 03:03, Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz at golang.org> wrote:

> Thanks, Tim.
>
> I was just about to post here about this.
>
> As background, I run https://build.golang.org/ and manage its 55+ build
> configurations (various OSes, architectures, versions). We run almost
> everything in VMs (almost all GCE, but VMWare for Macs), and other stuff in
> zones or Docker or other container things.
>
> The Dragonfly builder is one of our inelastic non-VM configs. I believe it
> runs on a single machine in a loop? We're prefer to run it on GCE where we
> can spin up thousands of cores as needed.
>
> GCE is KVM (but not qemu) and uses virtio.
>
> I see Dragonfly supports virtio now, so I suspect it'd run on GCE. Usually
> if something runs under qemu's virtio, it also runs on GCE. (GCE doesn't
> use qemu, though)
>
> We have an open bug to automate the creation of a bootable GCE image for
> Dragonfly, if people can help:
>
>      https://github.com/golang/go/issues/23060
>
> For OpenBSD, NetBSD, and FreeBSD, we have bash scripts (linked from that
> bug) that we run on Linux that runs curl to fetch the install ISOs, the
> runs qemu + expect to run through the installer and crap out a tarball at
> the end we can copy to Google Cloud Storage and then boot VMs off. Then
> every few months we refresh or create new builder template VMs for each OS.
> (each build+test runs in a single-use VM) We'd love to include Dragonfly in
> this set. It also enables us to create ephemeral debugging VMs when
> developers break an operating system they don't have locally.
>
> Has anybody scripted the Dragonfly installer already?
>
> Or is there a mode to do automated installs from a config file?
>
> Thanks!
> Brad
>
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 1:37 PM, Tim Darby <t+dfbsd at timdarby.net> wrote:
>
>> Has anyone run Dragonfly in a VM on Google Compute Engine? The Go team
>> would like to try that for the builder.
>>
>> Tim
>>
>
>
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