Hi, I'm going to privately rent a VM from BigV.io for approximately one week to do some Debian GNU/kFreeBSD work: * to test jessie d-i, particularly partman-zfs * clang-3.4, #759303: Does not have multiarch include paths on !linux * kfreebsd 10.1, #760114: transition: kfreebsd-kernel-headers * gcc-4.9, #761277: gdc uninstallable on kfreebsd because of missing dep. libphobos-4.9-dev If anyone would find it useful, please send me your SSH public key (via GPG-signed email, please) and you can have access. But remember the machine will be gone in 7 to 10 days from now. If this all goes to plan, there'll be two sid chroots (jails, actually) both accessible via ssh: kfreebsd-amd64 and kfreebsd-i386, but the host kernel will be kfreebsd-amd64 10.1 (from experimental). I'll be tuning it to get the fastest possible disk I/O (using ZFS). Initially it will have only 2 cores + 4GiB memory, increasing later if needed to 3 cores + 8GiB memory or more. The (compressed) filesystem will have 50GB space increasing later if needed. And about 8GiB swap. BigV.io is a public cloud product of Bytemark, a Debian sponsor. They have a full Debian mirror in the same datacentre (York, UK). I wanted to test anyway that GNU/kFreeBSD installs and runs nicely on it (based on KVM, using virtio). I need to do some test rebuilds for #760114 involving big packages with slow testsuites like glibc, gcc-4.9; I'll probably SIGSTOP these while any interactive users are logged in to keep things fast for any porting work. screen and tmux will be available. I'll perform at least two builds of packages maintained by debian-bsd@lists.debian.org, for the http://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds effort. With whatever time is left I'll try to rebuild (only once) all of build-essential and perhaps other things. Have fun! Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain steven@pyro.eu.org
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