From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: spice in kvm-autotest [was: Re: KVM call minutes for Apr 5] Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 15:25:54 -0300 Message-ID: <1302027954.2669.59.camel@freedom> References: <20110405150703.GQ22884@x200.localdomain> <20110405160119.GF8723@playa.tlv.redhat.com> <1302020868.2669.13.camel@freedom> <20110405170830.GG8723@playa.tlv.redhat.com> <4D9B5A96.3010603@codemonkey.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Swapna To: Anthony Liguori Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:1100 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752402Ab1DESZ7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2011 14:25:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4D9B5A96.3010603@codemonkey.ws> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 13:08 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 04/05/2011 12:08 PM, Alon Levy wrote: > > > >> The thing about WHQL is that it has its own test suite coordination > >> program (DTM), that has to run on a separate machine/VM. So they have > >> all infrastructure in place there. If we need graphical clients being > >> started and controlled on a linux bare metal machine, I am afraid we'll > >> have to resort to those GUI test automation frameworks I mentioned. if > >> our test is geared more towards windows clients, then they won't be > >> needed, sure. > > oh, but the added requirement is just launching the client > > It would be interesting to have autotest support getting screen grabs > from a client vs. directly from qemu. Would need to write 'drivers' to get screen shots from KVM (Keyboard, video and Mouse) or RSA, on IBM boxes... never thought about that before, no idea of how difficult it is. > That would allow you to run the step files through the client. > > Regards, > > Anthony Liguori > >