Add Windows slave hosted by Rackspace

[adiroiban]

Scope

In this way it should be easier to allow people to access it for maintenance

I saw that we are using only about $700 of rax invoice.

The windows slave was quite busy sometimes so a second slave should help

Changes

I have created the smallest win2012r2 windows vm on RAX

The private repo was already pushed.

I am documenting the steps required to have a windows slave here https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/ContinuousIntegration/Buildslaves#BuildslaveonWindows

For now the new slaves are in the unsuported category as I did not managed to start buildslave a a service.

I can start it in debug mode... but when I use the Windows service tool, it fails to start

The builddir option is no longer used as I think that it is automatically created by buildslave based on the builder name

To do

• Start buildslave as a service

How to test

Changes are deployed in production

https://buildbot.twistedmatrix.com/builders/win-64-py2.7

https://buildbot.twistedmatrix.com/builders/win-64-py2.7-coverage

[adiroiban]

the bdist builder fails to upload the file... I am still investigating

please check that initial changes are ok.

@tomprince I followed the wiki page from here http://trac.buildbot.net/wiki/RunningBuildbotOnWindows but BuildBot service is still not working ... the registry are created and I can start the server in debug mode using buildbot_service debug, even when I am connected with as the dedicated service account

Thanks!

[hawkowl]

Doesn't look like this is used anywhere?

[adiroiban]

Yep. I will rename it. It was there as a reminder of my intention to unify .

I will remove and use a separate win2012r2 builder

[hawkowl]

See comments, fix them up and then merge.

[adiroiban]

Thanks. I am adding it as unsupported for now.

It can be used to send coverage reports for windows in case win7 is down :)

I hope that we can get some VMs from Azure and them move all Windows slaves there.