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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Swapna <skrishna@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org

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
> 
>