>On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 09:48:34AM -0200, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote: > Hi folks: > > We're on an effort of streamlining the KVM test experience, by choosing > sane defaults and helper scripts that can overcome the initial barrier > with getting the KVM test running. On one of the conversations I've had > today, we came up with the idea of shipping the compiled windows > programs rss.exe and finish.exe, needed for windows hosts testing. > > Even though rss.exe and finish.exe can be compiled in a fairly > straightforward way using the awesome cross compiling environment with > mingw, there are some obvious limitations to it: > > 1) The cross compiling environment is only available for fedora >= 11. > No other distros I know have it. > > 2) Sometimes it might take time for the user to realize he/she has to > compile the source code under unattended/ folder, and how to do it. > > That person would take a couple of failed attempts scratching his/her > head thinking "what the heck is this deps/finish.exe they're talking > about?". Surely documentation can help, and I am looking at making the > documentation on how to do it more easily discoverable. > > That said, shipping the binaries would make the life of those people > easier, and anyway the binaries work pretty well across all versions of > windows from winxp to win7, they are self contained, with no external > dependencies (they all use the standard win32 API). > > 3) That said we also need a script that can build the entire > winutils.iso without making the user to spend way too much time figuring > out how to do it. I want to work on such a script on the next days. > > So, what are your opinions? Should we ship the binaries or pursue a > script that can build those for the user as soon as the (yet to be > integrated) get_started.py script runs? Remember that the later might > mean users of RHEL <= 5.X and debian like will be left out in the cold. > > Looking forward hearing your input, > > Lucas Hi Lucas, I believe it's straightforward way for newbie of kvm-autotest to get quickly started. I once compiled the source code two times, and each time I have to find the email that has the exact command with options. Thanks for working on this. :-) > > _______________________________________________ > Autotest mailing list > Autotest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://test.kernel.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/autotest -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
