Automated testing on EC2 (was: Re: bazaar Digest, Vol 58, Issue 14)

[Michael Hudson]

Robert Collins wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 22:16 -0600, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> 
> 
>> - From that page:
>>   "Hudson can work with any Unix AMIs. Windows is currently unsupported."
> 
> Hmm, *blink*. I'll file a bug on that; I'm fairly sure the ec2 stuff for
> buildbot will be similarly limited(the LP team wrote that, as Francis
> says).

I don't know how hudson does it, but with buildbot you just start an
instance and wait for it to connect -- if you can arrange a Windows AMI
to do that, I think the code on the buildbot side will Just Work(tm).

Of course, I have no idea at all how to arrange this on a Windows machine.

Cheers,
mwh