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

[Alon Levy]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 03:32:35PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> 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.

+1.

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