Perl, VMWare, and Virtual Solutions
By Sam Tregar, December 01, 2004
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The Krang Farm is an automated build and test system created using VMWare and Perl.
December, 2004: Perl, VMWare, and Virtual Solutions
# each machine gets a Machine block
<Machine Redhat7_3_i686>
# a reminder of what's on this machine
Description "Redhat 7.3 Server w/ custom Perls for i686"
# the user and password the farm system will use to login, needs sudo
User krang
Password krang
# the Perl binaries and the builds they generate
Perls /usr/bin/perl Redhat7_3-perl5.6.1-i686-linux \
/usr/local/bin/perl5.6.2 Redhat7_3-perl5.6.2-i686-linux \
/usr/local/bin/perl5.8.3 Redhat7_3-perl5.8.3-i686-linux \
/usr/local/bin/perl5.8.4 Redhat7_3-perl5.8.4-i686-linux
</Machine>
Example 4: A single machine's configuration block.