wxWidgets Build Slave Disk Images
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The tarballs each contain a .vmdk hard disk image that can be used
with virtualisation software such as VMware
(http://www.vmware.com/download/server/) or VirtualBox
(http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads). It provides a ready made
buildbot slave for the wxWidgets buildbot system.

If you set up a bot for a platform not covered, then you can upload
an image of it here to assist others.

Currently available:

bb-gtk-linux-x64.tar.bz2    - 32-bit Ubuntu Hardy with GTK+ dev packages
                              Mark Gollahon <mgollahon@exacq.com>

bb-gtk-linux-amd64.tar.bz2  - 64-bit Ubuntu Hardy with GTK+ dev packages
                              Mark Gollahon <mgollahon@exacq.com>

You can easily install additional dev packages into the VM after you
have downloaded it, if you wish to build a different wxWidgets port.
For example mingw or motif packages to build wxMSW or wxMotif.

Before you begin you should email us, mike.wetherell@ntlworld.com or
vadim@wxwidgets.org, to let us know you will be running the bot.
Choose a name and password for your slave and let us know what they
are and what IP address(es) it will be connecting from.

Create a virtual machine using the hard disk image. Boot it and log in
as root, password "root".

The VMs networking will configure automatically using DHCP, so there
should be nothing to do unless you have some special requirements.

Edit the following files, to give a contact email address for yourself
and and brief description of your slave:

    /var/lib/buildbot/wxslave/info/admin
    /var/lib/buildbot/wxslave/info/host

Also edit:

    /var/lib/buildbot/wxslave/buildbot.tac

and change 'SLAVENAME' and 'PASSWORD' to the values you have sent us.

Then restart the buildbot process:

    # invoke-rc.d buildbot restart