• HP DL145 G3
• Firmware based on coreboot Coreboot page on HP DL145 g3
  • original bios did not support hardware virtualisation
  • bootloader is embedded in the firmware and is similar to grub. Config file in /boot/filo/menu.lst .
• Dual Opteron 2218HE
• 8GB reg ecc ram (kingston)
• dual 200GB sata drives (software raid 1)

The machine hosts virtual machines. Other than that no functionality runs on the machine.

* root and boot

* var, home, luns for vm's VolumeGroup: vg on /dev/md2

• eth0 - bridged to br0, ip assigned with dhcp
• br0: run script in screen

#!/bin/bash
if [ $TERM == screen ]; then
/usr/bin/killall dhcpcd
/bin/rm -fr /var/db/dhcpcd*
/sbin/modprobe tun
/usr/sbin/tunctl -t tap0
/usr/sbin/brctl addbr br0
/usr/sbin/brctl addif br0 eth0
/usr/sbin/brctl addif br0 tap0
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 promisc up #still need to test if promisc is needed
/sbin/ifconfig tap0 0.0.0.0 promisc up #still need to test if promisc is needed
/sbin/ifconfig br0 up
/usr/sbin/dhcpcd br0
 
echo "Sleep for 5 minutes, Ctrl ^ C to stop, will revert changes if you don't"
sleep 5m
 
echo "revert changes"
/sbin/ifconfig br0 down
/usr/bin/killall dhcpcd
/bin/rm -fr /var/db/dhcpcd*
/usr/sbin/brctl delif br0 eth0
/usr/sbin/brctl delif br0 tap0
/usr/sbin/brctl delbr br0
/usr/sbin/tunctl -d tap0
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 up
/usr/sbin/dhcpcd eth0
 
echo "Sleep for 5 minutes, Ctrl ^ C to stop, will revert changes if you don't"
sleep 5m
echo "reboot"
/sbin/reboot
else
echo "USE SCREEN";
fi

• vde_switch: Switch that the virtual machines (buildslaves) will use to communicate with the buildmaster.

vde_switch -tap tap1 -daemon;
ifconfig tap1 10.0.0.1;
echo "1" >  /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward;
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o br0 -j MASQUERADE

#!/bin/bash
# This script starts the buildbot
vdeq qemu-system-x86_64 -vnc :1 -hda /dev/vg/BuildBot -m 512 -net nic,vlan=0 -net tap,vlan=0,ifname=tap0,script=no -net vde,vlan=1 -net nic,vlan=1 -daemonize

• eth0: fixed ip - external ip (dns: buildbot.xfce.org)
• eth1: internal nic connected to the virtual switch (ip: 10.0.0.2)

• buildbot 0.7.10p1

• create the user buildmaster
• Create instance of buildbot:

buildbot create-master /home/buildmaster/xfce

• start the buildbot instance:

buildbot start /home/buildmaster/xfce

• configure the buildbot instance: edit master.cfg
• validate the edits:

buildbot checkconfig master.cfg

• reread the config in the current instance:

buildbot reconfig /home/buildmaster/xfce

• master.cfg:

lunar ip 10.0.0.3

vdeq qemu-system-x86_64 -vnc :2 -hda /dev/vg/lunar -m 512 -net vde,vlan=1 -net nic,vlan=1 -daemonize