Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: spice in kvm-autotest [was: Re: KVM call minutes for Apr 5]

[Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com>]

On 04/05/2011 03:25 PM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote:
> 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.

I guess Anthony meant grabbing screenshots from a VNC or SPICE client, 
right?

>> That would allow you to run the step files through the client.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Anthony Liguori
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