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From: Dan Shearer <dan@shearer.org>
Subject: Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target
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On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 09:29:11AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> FYI, I've started building a VNC based automated tester.  You provide it 
> a series of screenshots with masks of data that's likely to be 

That's excellent.

I see this as a different class of testing to the tinderbox-style
testing Natalia Portillo was talking about, checking out and compiling
under different circumstances. That's very valuable, and will help
address a problem that drives away a lot of potential QEMU users - they
just can't compile it.

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Dan Shearer
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