Re: 32 bits Jesssie Vagrant boxes ?
Hi Manu.
Emmanuel Kasper <manu@debian.org> writes:
> Le 20/01/2017 à 18:45, Olivier Berger a écrit :
>> Hi.
>>
>> AFAICS on https://atlas.hashicorp.com/debian there are no 32 bits i686
>> stable/jessie images available for Vagrant.
>>
>> Maybe that'd be important for VirtualBox so that one may test particular
>> environments where 64 bits isn't suitable (for instance if meant to be
>> run on end-user machines only installed with 32 bits OS).
>>
>> Would it make sense ?
>>
>
> Hi Olivier !
> 32bits require extra work for building and testing (we're still doing
> that locally) and have not been requested up to now IIRC.
> I think currently all cloud images are 64 bits only.
>
> Is the test use case you're mentioning a theoretical need or a practical
> one ?
>
Rather practical, even though still exploratory, without end-users in
the loop yet.
My aim is to create a VirtualBox Debian VM ready for students learning
network protocols, which would run a netkit(-ng) [0] lab that relies on
a 32 bits version of UML (User Mode Linux).
Until I'm ready to produce a full-fledged VirtualBox image, I'm trying
to experiment and automate using Vagrant and the VirtualBox provider.
The constraint on 32 bits is due to the fact that there would probably
be users of the VM on VirtualBox running over a 32 bits OS (we target a
MOOC with a very diverse audience).
But everything isn't really stabilised and it may happen that we choose
other means than a VirtualBox VM to run the UMLs... or another variant
of netkit that would support 64 bits UML... or... I don't know yet ;)
Hope this makes sense, a bit.
Best regards,
[0] https://netkit-ng.github.io/
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Olivier BERGER
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Ingenieur Recherche - Dept INF
Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, Evry (France)
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