Hi, I hate manual testing of software as much as I hate lack of Q/A. That's why I wrote Kantan, a simple testing suite using Grml and KVM.
I am proud to announce the first easy to use and working version of it. It's in an early stage but what it already provides is a fully automated installation of a FAI server and installation of FAI clients (using simple examples provided by FAI or any configured config space). This allows me to autotest any FAI version without much effort. The full installation of the FAI server (package installation, creation of nfsroot and setup of dhcp/nfs/tftp/...) using FAI 3.4.4 with simple examples takes about 20 minutes on my somewhat-old laptop (Core2Duo, 2GB RAM) with a slow external USB disk and a non-local Debian mirror (cdn.debian.net). The installation of clients takes about 15 minutes. Besides the CPU (for KVM) the execution time is mainly limited by I/O and network, the faster your disks and the used Debian mirror are the more fun it will be. :) The setup and usage is pretty trivial, see http://grml.org/kantan/#setup for details. Find the project website at http://grml.org/kantan/ and if you're interested in the source check out http://git.grml.org/?p=kantan.git I've tons of further ideas what we could do with Kantan and plan to continue my work on it. I'd appreciate any feedback and welcome any testers. regards, -mika-
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