I think the idea is good but my experience with running regressions/compilations on vmware is that it is SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW. If instead you have a per-platform "installer package" that does the same thing, only runs natively, that would be good. -----Original Message----- From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org on behalf of Janek Kozicki Sent: Thu 6/7/2007 5:24 AM To: boost@lists.boost.org Subject: [boost] [boost@home] revolutionary solution to create a testing farm Hi, go ahead and call me crazy :) I couldn't sleep last night thinking about the problems that boost has with the testing process. Although the roots of my idea were different it turns out to be very similar to well known SETI@Home project. Therefore I call it Boost@Home :) Solution is simple in following steps: 1. create a vmware image with operating system and a single compiler installed. One vmware image per compiler to ease bugfix and upgrades in the vmware images.