Dragonfly on GCE

[Brad Fitzpatrick]

Oh, excellent!

That looks perfect. I've never used packer but I've always meant to try it.
Great reason to.

Thanks!


On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 8:29 PM, Rickard von Essen <
rickard.von.essen at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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