Hello Lance, I have not personally done anything like this personally but am still willing to spin up that machine if needed. It is still powered off and sitting on its rack.
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Erick Brunzell <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 11/18/2014 09:08 AM, Keith I Myers wrote: > > Hello All, > I have a spare dedicated server sitting in a colo space that I pay for. > The server is powered off and is pretty much going to waste. I was thinking > of setting up a VM host to find a better way of performing some high level > QA tests in a semi-automated fashion. Has anyone toyed with this idea in > the past? > > > (Server Specs : 2x Quad Core L5420 Processors | 36 GB RAM | 2x 1 TB Hard > Disks) > > -- > > [image: --] > Keith I Myers > [image: http://]+Keith I Myers <http://plus.kmyers.me/> > Mobile : (305)-929-3475 > > > > > > > Hi Keith, > > Sorry for the enormously long delay but this kept getting pushed further > and further down on my to-do list :^( > > I've not personally played with automated testing and my testing machines > lack the RAM capacity to make use of a virtual machine ATM, but I did > several years ago use VirtualBox for all of my distro upgrade testing. The > clear benefit was the ability to use snapshots so if an upgrade test failed > I could easily restore the snapshot and then repeat the test when the devs > released a potential bug fix. > > Upgrade tests (using the release-upgrader) are by far the most time > consuming because it requires beginning with a fully updated prior version > so you have the installation time of the old release + the time to apply > updates + applying a few tweaks (such as importing or creating browser & > email client profiles) + importing a few files/pics to be sure no data is > lost during the upgrade. Then after that the actual upgrade usually takes 1 > 1/2 to 2 1/2 hours. > > Anyway, does anyone else on the list know anything about setting up > automated testing? If not maybe someone could contact *balloons* via IRC > chat for some resources regarding that. I believe the lions share of > Ubuntu's own testing is now automated so I'm sure resources exist, I'm just > not sure where to begin looking. > > Lance > -- [image: --] Keith I Myers [image: http://]http://KMyers.me +Keith I Myers <http://plus.kmyers.me/> Mobile : (305)-929-3475
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