On Wed, 2016-09-14 at 20:22 +0200, Jiri Eischmann wrote: > > I spoke with Kamil Paral of the Fedora QA the other day and when I > mentioned Boxes his comment was: "We tried to use it again, but found > it completely broken." We didn't go into any details and I will > certainly speak more in detail about with them. But this is what I got > after insisting they should use it on daily basis to properly test it. > > I've used both virt-manager and Boxes and while you're right that the > user experience of virt-manager is pretty bad it's a tool that has > never failed on me unlike Boxes (people around me have similar > experience) + it covers pretty much all features required by power > users. > In the last LinuxVoice magazine virt-manager even won the contest of > desktop virtualization tools for Linux, so apparently others don't find > it so hopeless and not being a viable contender. > > And BTW Adding RDP support to Boxes is planned. FWIW I pretty much always use virt-manager too, I rarely touch Boxes. But I haven't looked at it for a while, either, and I just tried it very briefly and it seems like it may be a bit more conduicive to QA use than it was before; I'll try and remember to use it a bit. Still, it still has some obvious issues for our purposes; I can't see any way to change any of the system devices except the CD/DVD, for instance, so I can't attach or remove hard disks, which is vital for lots of my tests. I quite often still have to switch between VNC and Spice, too, and I can't see a way to do that either. I can't see any way to do a direct kernel boot, either. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
