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

[John Snow]

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.