TFS Build Virtualizer

NEW POST: TFS 2008 support?

svdoever — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:48:40 GMT

Hi,

Does the TFS Build Virtualizer also support TFS 2008? We are currently setting up our environment on TFS 2008, and this approach sounds really useful for us.

Regards,

Serge

UPDATED WIKI: Positions Vacant

MitchDenny — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:47:43 GMT

Positions Vacant

We are currently in need of the following specific skills on this project. If you are interested, please contact Mitch Denny.

Documentation Writer; responsible for updating CodePlex wiki and producing installation guide.
Tester; responsible for testing installation process and operation of the tool.
Developer; joint responsibility with me in designing and developing the TFS Build Virtualizer moving forward.

UPDATED WIKI: Positions Vacant

MitchDenny — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:51:09 GMT

Positions Vacant

We are currently in need of the following specific skills on this project. If you are interested, please contact Mitch Denny.

Documentation Writer; responsible for updating CodePlex wiki and producing installation guide.
Tester; responsible for testing installation process and operation of the tool.*
Developer; joint responsibility with me in designing and developing the TFS Build Virtualizer moving forward.

UPDATED WIKI: Home

MitchDenny — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:46:34 GMT

Welcome

Welcome to the TFS Build Virtualizer project homepgage, to see what this project is all about please refer to our project description.

Project Description

TFS Build Virtualizer is an extension to the Team Foundation Server build system which allows build masters to have a large number of virtualized build servers with Team Build installed. When a build is invoked the build virtualizer determines which build server to use to run the build and communicates with Virtual Server 2005 where it exists in a saved state.

The build virtualizer resumes the build server from saved state, and forwards the build request into the build server where it builds normally. Once the build completes (success or failure) the build server is put into a saved state once again.

Benefits of using this approach include being able to have a large number of build servers (for each team, or different build environment) and be limited by only the amount of available disk space.

The build virtualizer is designed to accommodation multiple different TFS servers and has configuration settings to restrict which hosted virtual machines developers can request access to.

Positions Vacant

If you would like to help out with this project, please visit our Positions Vacant page.

UPDATED WIKI: Home

MitchDenny — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:46:20 GMT

Welcome

Welcome to the TFS Build Virtualizer project homepgage, to see what this project is all about please refer to our project description.

Project Description

Positions Vacant

If you would like to help out with this project, please visit our Positions Vacant page.

UPDATED WIKI: Positions Vacant

MitchDenny — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:45:15 GMT

Positions Vacant

We are currently in need of the following specific skills on this project. If you are interested, please contact Mitch Denny.

Documentation Writer; responsible for updating CodePlex wiki and producing installation guide.
Tester; responsible for testing installation process and operation of the tool.*
Developer; joint responsibility with me in designing and developing the TFS Build Virtualizer moving forward.

UPDATED WIKI: Home

MitchDenny — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:43:19 GMT

Project Description
TFS Build Virtualizer is an extension to the Team Foundation Server build system which allows build masters to have a large number of virtualized build servers with Team Build installed. When a build is invoked the build virtualizer determines which build server to use to run the build and communicates with Virtual Server 2005 where it exists in a saved state.

The build virtualizer resumes the build server from saved state, and forwards the build request into the build server where it builds normally. Once the build completes (success or failure) the build server is put into a saved state once again.

Benefits of using this approach include being able to have a large number of build servers (for each team, or different build environment) and be limited by only the amount of available disk space.

The build virtualizer is designed to accommodation multiple different TFS servers and has configuration settings to restrict which hosted virtual machines developers can request access to.

If you would like to help out with this project, please visit our Positions Vacant page.

UPDATED WIKI: Home

MitchDenny — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:11:19 GMT

UPDATED RELEASE: TFS Build Virtualizer 1.0 (RTM) (Dec 12, 2007)

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:08:45 GMT

This is the first public release of TFS Build Virtualizer 1.0 and is ready for immediate use. This version of TFS Build Virtualizer has been used reliably in production by Readify for a number of months and supports Team Foundation Server 2005 and Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1.

CREATED RELEASE: TFS Build Virtualizer 1.0 (RTM) (Dec 12, 2007)

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:07:45 GMT

Source code checked in

MitchDenny — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:01:14 GMT

Checking in the 1.0 RTM branch. This check-in is stable and ready to release for use with Team Foundation Server 2005 and Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1.

Source code checked in

MitchDenny — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:54:04 GMT

This is the initial check-in of the source tree that Readify has been using with Team Foundation Server 2005 for quite some time. It is stable, and tested in a production environment. Its short comings are that it relies on firewall security to make sure evil doers don't get in there and start playing around with build servers coming up and down, and it could use an install and a lot better documentation.

Source code checked in

MitchDenny — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:52:09 GMT

Checking in the initial structure of the source tree. We need to be able to support branching because we are going to release a Team Foundation Server 2005 compatible version, the work on a Team Foundation Server 2008 version.