VMware is a mess on Linux especially if you run secure boot enabled since you need to get and sign VMware modules and yhen hope all kernel packages matches that it can build it is no worth for VMware to use on Linux since there is so much easier ways and faster virt-manager and boxes... I have to agree on macOS and windows it is highly used one still, but not on linux Sent from Proton Mail Android -------- Original Message -------- On 11/23/24 00:35, Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2024-11-22 at 11:53 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote: > > Hey folks, > > > > I'd like to ask if we could consider adding regular tests for running > > Fedora Linux on VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion. Both products > > are now available for use at no-cost for any purpose[1]. Notably, > > VMware Fusion is the only reasonably supportable hypervisor for Fedora > > Linux VMs on Apple Silicon Macs, and the Fedora KDE SIG *explicitly* > > supports this use-case for Fedora KDE. > > > > (The other option is Parallels Desktop, but we don't have Parallels > > guest tools in Fedora, and I'm pretty sure we can't because it uses > > its own kernel modules and might not be fully FOSS.) > > > > Is there a path forward to adding it as a test-case, maybe even with > > some automated testing? > > It's already a test case: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_42_Rawhide_20241120.n.0_Installation#Virtualization > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Install_to_VMware > > automating it is harder. openQA doesn't have a VMware backend, so we > can't use our existing automation system for it as-is, someone would > have to write one (not me). And even that would only test it on Linux, > which arguably is a bit pointless as I'm not sure most people run > VMware *on Linux*, it is much more commonly used on Windows or macOS. > We have no kind of of framework at all for running automation on > Windows or macOS at present, and I'm not really interested in building > one. If anyone else is, though, fire away :) > -- > Adam Williamson (he/him/his) > Fedora QA > Fedora Chat: @adamwill:fedora.im | Mastodon: @adamw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://www.happyassassin.net > > > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > test mailing list -- test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to test-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue > -- _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to test-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
