Re: [Pretest-users] Portability testing using pre-configured VMs

[Darshit Shah]

On 10/03, Assaf Gordon wrote:
> Hello,
>
> To ease portability testing of GNU software,
> I've created a collection of virtual-machines of POSIX-compatible, 
> Free-Software operating systems.
> These are pre-configured with programs required for building autotools-based 
> projects.
>
> If anyone is interested in using them, downloads and more information are 
> available here:
>   http://www.nongnu.org/pretest/
>
> I've sent few reports based on these VMs to various mailing lists
> (and except the MINIX case, I hope the signal-to-noise ratio was good enough to 
> be considered useful).
>
> OSes include:
>  gNewSense, Trisquel,
>  Debian, Ubuntu (only the free repositories),
>  CentOS, OpenSUSE,
>  FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD,
>  GNU Hurd, DilOS (OpenSolaris-like), MINIX.
> Downloads here:
>   http://www.nongnu.org/pretest/downloads/
>
> In this first version, testing is done manually.
> In future versions, I hope to automate large parts of it (that is - given a tarball, run 
> "configure + make + make check" on all VMs). Integration with other 
> infrastructures (like libvirt) is also a goal.
>
> I will try to test future tarballs sent to platform-testers.
>
> Comments and suggestions are welcomed,
> (Please reply to  address@hidden )
>
> - Assaf
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Excellent stuff! Thanks a lot for sharing this. Would be very helpful in testing 
release versions of our software!

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Thanking You,
Darshit Shah

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