Re: [Qemu-devel] Call for testers for various versions of Windows

[Programmingkid]

> On Jul 31, 2017, at 2:03 PM, John Snow <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On 07/28/2017 03:45 PM, Programmingkid wrote:
>> I have made a page that keeps track of anyone who wishes to be a tester for 
>> a particular version of Windows. Here is the page: 
>> http://wiki.qemu.org/Testing/Windows
>> 
> 
> I think for this to be successful, you'd have to define exactly what the
> required testing *is*.
> 
> Are these simple installation smoketests? Installation and boot? How big
> is the test matrix? What is considered a pass and what is not? Across
> which machine types and which architectures?
> 
> etc.
> 
>> If there is a version of Window you would like to help test in QEMU, please 
>> contact me with the email address you wish to use and the version of Windows 
>> you wish to support. Your information will be added to this list. With this 
>> list someone who makes a patch may need your help ensuring the patch is 
>> compatible with your supported version of Windows. 
>> 
>> Here are all the versions of Windows I have up so far:
>> 
>> Windows 3.1
>> Windows NT 3.1
>> Windows NT 3.5
>> Windows 95
>> Windows NT 4.0
>> Windows 98
>> Windows ME
>> Windows 2000
>> Windows XP
>> Windows Vista
>> Windows 7
>> Windows 8
>> Windows 10
>> ReactOS
>> 
> 
> There's probably people willing to at least do boot tests for some of
> these, but I doubt there's much interest in doing anything more rigorous
> than that.

Ok. I could add something like this:

Testing could include these categories:
- Booting
- Networking
- USB
- IDE/ATA
- Video
- Sound
- Input Devices


Thank you for the input.