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

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 04/05/2011 01:44 PM, Cleber Rosa wrote:
> 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?

Yes.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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