----- "Uri Lublin" <uril@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 02/02/2010 01:48 PM, 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. > > 4) Another option is to make winutils.iso available (somewhere on the > web), and > download it in get_started.py (similar to other iso images used by kvm > test). But isn't there a legal problem with that? winutils.iso contains VLC media player (for the timedrift test). If there's no legal problem, this sounds like the best option to me. > -- > 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 -- 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
