From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 12 16:20:28 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C4BCD0A for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:20:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from toasty@dragondata.com) Received: from mail-ie0-x232.google.com (mail-ie0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::232]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F745F79 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:20:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f178.google.com with SMTP id c13so343233ieb.9 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2013 08:20:27 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=dragondata.com; s=google; h=x-received:from:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:subject :message-id:date:to:mime-version:x-mailer; bh=RehjMpU7uJPj8kgkT5WNzSDQPqcivL/P2ThT470Aoa0=; b=SQjXjmB7WUKhQCCaUpM4q1NI+cG8zRwfrMuJueJsMiS6Zn17Y0BdDyRNNumCX9edSV fxcMNr1RRRzHAEBz8A98Sd6c9+G6VySjD3fMjTcau6eIoecCqnz8c1gxUPj48UTbnbGz RdxC0LUcBwct/vt0td17SiW4SKlqQx1uqiu3Q= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:from:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:subject :message-id:date:to:mime-version:x-mailer:x-gm-message-state; bh=RehjMpU7uJPj8kgkT5WNzSDQPqcivL/P2ThT470Aoa0=; b=bnkOes7b12ILgS4GFkTRkNI9B5Hyzs3+k0vnnwrtbzxT+BvJl+QbltAdQGilGzp5Cc 5AN3nUaqnoHTcml09E3ghya4aCDMB9o/4kpaqAGc8kGDWpR4FYEL8a0/+RNZZNcBPy9+ MlaYICX7dTdvUbmRSI2MczOjjmNhwpVsZQEuVs2YShWBNCQBr5l4N6epXEqvFr6ou9vN F5/c/wTJJAC47zCAKSV2Jlp4a4G7DWexrKuY9jUk/7ZT9GZr1INy9N86SyQJAPOEk1LS Z2Ri4uEwMjjJkCeUa/6fpmoXBVmOtKZCJyBOXBjLCSuyEEP7OmRSLFRonIjS2sn2ysgH EQFA== X-Received: by 10.50.159.162 with SMTP id xd2mr4495480igb.11.1360686027662; Tue, 12 Feb 2013 08:20:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from vpn132.rw1.your.org (vpn132.rw1.your.org. [204.9.51.132]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fb10sm34755990igb.1.2013.02.12.08.20.25 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 12 Feb 2013 08:20:26 -0800 (PST) From: Kevin Day Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Obscure platform testbed Message-Id: Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:20:23 -0600 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.2 \(1499\)) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1499) X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmi2z3ouZTaM1U2HC/vUT9zNsjuL+MgSfrBXGtq/Gw0JiVIuXOStL8mbOSl5vhB+5WWLWn7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:20:28 -0000 I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, so if you know of = anyone who may be interested in this please forward to them. Right now = my company (your.org) does the free amd64/i386 VMs for FreeBSD = developers. For an unrelated project, we're trying to build a testbed of many of the = more obscure *nix boxes, both running their native OS and a modern OS. = As an example, we've now got two SGI O2 R10K boxes, one running IRIX and = one running NetBSD. We're planning on doing the same for Sparc64(Solaris = and FreeBSD), VAX, ARM, etc. Where possible we'll have NFS mounted home = directories and NIS to have shared logins across the "cluster". First, would any of you find this useful? If this is really only useful = for us, I won't bother trying to make this scale beyond our own need for = this. If this is popular enough to warrant the extra time, it wouldn't = be much more work to make this available to any developer who could use = it.=20 Second, do any of you have older non-intel boxes that are just gathering = dust, that are complete enough to install an OS and plug into ethernet? = If it's otherwise heading to a dumpster one day, we'd happily pay for = shipping to put it to good/public use. -- Kevin