On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Mike Korobov <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > I also found VirtualBox 4.0.0 and 4.0.2 buggy but with recent 4.0.4 > release stability seems to improve a lot.
Good to know, I appear to be using 4.0.2 atm. > Snapshots taking doesn't > work for me if VM is running in headless mode but in standard mode > (when window pops up and closes) all was fine. This doesn't matter > much because [...] restoring works fine for me even in > headless mode. Also good to know; Vagrant uses headless by default (not even sure if there is an option for non-headless) but if restoration can be done in that mode I might still check that out. Thanks for the info! -Jeff > > 2011/2/22 Jeff Forcier <[email protected]>: >> Hey Mike, >> >> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 5:37 AM, Mike Korobov <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I've recently released https://bitbucket.org/kmike/fabtest/ package. >>> This package is for writing tests for Fabric scripts against >>> VirtualBox VMs: before each test VM is rolled back to selected >>> snapshot. >> >> That's neat! I haven't the time to try it out right now but I'm >> curious as to how long your snapshot rollbacks take (1s, 10s, 60s >> etc). I use Virtualbox right now (via Vagrant) but the snapshot >> functionality was somewhat buggy for me so I've not used it much. >> Instead I use Vagrant's package functionality (which is semi slow but >> pretty stable) and/or focus on idempotent Fabric recipes. >> >>> Can please somebody review the code? Are there better ways to do this >>> kind of things? Am I missing something in the implementation? >> >> For running Fabric's own tests, I wrote a somewhat hacky >> Paramiko-driven fake SSH/SFTP server -- it's in the master branch in >> tests/server.py (with to-be-merged improvements to the SFTP stuff in >> put-get-overhaul). It works reasonably well for the existing test >> suite, but needs more work to be generally useful for your use case, I >> think. I have vague plans to clean it up and make it its own project >> sometime. >> >> The greater discussion of "fake SSH server versus real SSH server" is >> one I had a while ago and I'm reasonably happy with the route I took >> for Fabric's test suite, but for "manual" testing of fabfile tasks (as >> opposed to frequent runs of a large test suite) I think your approach >> may have a lot of merit too. Again, I'll try to take a closer look in >> a while. >> >> -Jeff >> >> -- >> Jeff Forcier >> Unix sysadmin; Python/Ruby engineer >> http://bitprophet.org >> > -- Jeff Forcier Unix sysadmin; Python/Ruby engineer http://bitprophet.org _______________________________________________ Fab-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fab-user
