1350002 - Slave loan request for a Windows 7 VM to tjr

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Infrastructure & Operations Graveyard :: CIDuty, task)

Description

[Tom Ritter [:tjr] (OOTO until 4/30 at least)]

I need a Windows 7 VM temporarily to test some Windows Error Reporting package weirdness. I don't need any specific environment (like a build environment) just a bare Windows 7 VM. 

I don't think I'll need it for long, maybe a couple hours. (Depending, of course, when I get access to it and if it's late in the day.)

Comment 1

[Sebastian Pacurar [:spacurar]]

Email sent to :tjr for further instructions. 

Loaning machines: 
    - t-w732-ec2-tjr

Hi Tom, 

I am going to assign this to you to keep track of the loan. 

When you are finished with the loan forever, please comment stating so here in the bug, and mark the bug as RESOLVED.

By the way, now that this aws instance has been created, starting and stopping it can happen in a flash!
If you are not going to be using this machine for multiple hours, let us know in this bug and we can stop it.

Comment again when you want it started back up.
* For faster turnaround, ping #releng (look for nick with 'buildduty')

Comment 2

[Kim Moir [:kmoir] ET]

tjr> 
spacurar|buildduty: Could you turn this machine off for now so we're not paying for it? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1350002
4:40 PM I still need it, but I'm sitting on my hands waiting for microsoft to finish some opaque process

Comment 3

[Andrei Obreja [:aobreja NOT AVAILABLE][:buildduty]]

Machine t-w732-ec2-tjr was stopped as requested.

Comment 4

[Chris AtLee [:catlee]]

I restarted this yesterday for tjr

Comment 5

[Andrei Obreja [:aobreja NOT AVAILABLE][:buildduty]]

Hi Tom,I was wondering if you still need this loaner?

Comment 6

[Tom Ritter [:tjr] (OOTO until 4/30 at least)]

I do, but it seems likely that I will need a box like this (a x64 one would actually be more useful) for... a long time. I have a Windows machine at home, but mine is Win10 and I need Win 7 (or maybe 8, I don't know if 8 works). 

I don't do builds on it, all I do is install some packages and run some scripts to manually perform the work being developed in Bug 1361058. But even after that bug is closed there is a followup bug that will need to be completed (and filed) before I'm completely done with this.

So I guess what I'm asking is if there is a permanent or semi-permanent windows box I can have a user account on and use occasionally that is cheap for us. Maybe this one could be downgraded in resources (and switched to x64), or maybe there's an automation box sitting around I could use.

Comment 7

[Andrei Obreja [:aobreja NOT AVAILABLE][:buildduty]]

Unfortunetly we don't have have Win 7 x64 VM for loan and also we don't have a permanent or semi-permanent windows box.

Comment 8

[Sebastian Pacurar [:spacurar]]

@tjr: Is this instance still needed, or it can be terminated and removed from inventory?

Comment 9

[Tom Ritter [:tjr] (OOTO until 4/30 at least)]

Believe it or not I do still need it. (I'm working on eliminating my dependency on it though.)

However I don't use it frequently, so we can shut it down between use if that's helpful.

Comment 10

[Andrei Obreja [:aobreja NOT AVAILABLE][:buildduty]]

The machine will be stopped then,please comment again when you want us to start it.

Comment 11

[Tom Ritter [:tjr] (OOTO until 4/30 at least)]

Hi, could this machine be started again? Thanks!

Comment 12

[Andrei Obreja [:aobreja NOT AVAILABLE][:buildduty]]

Instance was started ,sorry for the late response.

Comment 13

[Tom Ritter [:tjr] (OOTO until 4/30 at least)]

Thank you! I completed the operation, you can shut it down again. (I don't think I'll need it for a couple weeks.)

Comment 14

[Andrei Obreja [:aobreja NOT AVAILABLE][:buildduty]]

Instance stopped as requested.

Comment 15

[Andrei Obreja [:aobreja NOT AVAILABLE][:buildduty]]

As requested on #buildduty channel this instance was terminated and ldap credentials removed.