Comments on: Virtualization and QA http://www.openbuddha.com/2007/07/02/virtualization-and-qa/ Open Source Buddhism Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:21:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Darren http://www.openbuddha.com/2007/07/02/virtualization-and-qa/comment-page-1/#comment-450265 Darren Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:51:47 +0000 http://www.arcanology.com/2007/07/02/virtualization-and-qa/#comment-450265 I currently have a 450 Gb library of VMs that my users manually copy from tje library to VM systems when needed. Does anyone have any better ideas for how to make common VMs available and easily disrtibute them to test systems when needed? I currently have a 450 Gb library of VMs that my users manually copy from tje library to VM systems when needed. Does anyone have any better ideas for how to make common VMs available and easily disrtibute them to test systems when needed?

]]> By: Darren http://www.openbuddha.com/2007/07/02/virtualization-and-qa/comment-page-1/#comment-450261 Darren Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:46:24 +0000 http://www.arcanology.com/2007/07/02/virtualization-and-qa/#comment-450261 Does anyone have any hardware recomendations for taking a desktop vistualization to a more centralized VM infrastructure? I like th independance of separate systems for testers to use, but I also like the power that a centralized server can use. I see risks with a centralized server and turf battles over resources, and separate desktops being underpowered for certain VM environments. Does anyone have any hardware recomendations for taking a desktop vistualization to a more centralized VM infrastructure? I like th independance of separate systems for testers to use, but I also like the power that a centralized server can use. I see risks with a centralized server and turf battles over resources, and separate desktops being underpowered for certain VM environments.

]]> By: abillings@mozilla.com http://www.openbuddha.com/2007/07/02/virtualization-and-qa/comment-page-1/#comment-33287 abillings@mozilla.com Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:51:53 +0000 http://www.arcanology.com/2007/07/02/virtualization-and-qa/#comment-33287 Thanks! I may do that. I've just been happy to find out that they compress down well when zipped. I was afraid of eating up too much disk space storing these. Thanks! I may do that. I’ve just been happy to find out that they compress down well when zipped. I was afraid of eating up too much disk space storing these.

]]> By: preed@mozilla.com http://www.openbuddha.com/2007/07/02/virtualization-and-qa/comment-page-1/#comment-33286 preed@mozilla.com Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:13:30 +0000 http://www.arcanology.com/2007/07/02/virtualization-and-qa/#comment-33286 Let me know if you ever run into any problems with VMware or have any questions on how to set stuff up. I do the reference platform stuff on the build side; I think I got "stuck" with it because I worked at VMware before MoCo. :-) Let me know if you ever run into any problems with VMware or have any questions on how to set stuff up. I do the reference platform stuff on the build side; I think I got “stuck” with it because I worked at VMware before MoCo. :-)

]]> By: Matthew Kairys http://www.openbuddha.com/2007/07/02/virtualization-and-qa/comment-page-1/#comment-33285 Matthew Kairys Tue, 03 Jul 2007 09:51:52 +0000 http://www.arcanology.com/2007/07/02/virtualization-and-qa/#comment-33285 I've been using VMware for quite some time now for Mozilla QA purposes. I find it far more convenient to simply reload a VM from a snapshot so the OS is back to its original configuration so testing can be done on the same set of data as it was previously. My previous setup was using a dual boot method which got rather messy within a few days of testing Firefox trunk builds with the annoyance of switching between Windows and Linux constantly. My only problem at the moment with virtualisation is the lack of memory in my machine to efficiently run more than one VM at a time although I'm hoping to get my hands on some extra memory in the next few days to resolve that problem. Aside from that minor inconvenience I find virtualisation a very useful and effective means for testing in different environments. Definitely the way to go for QA. I’ve been using VMware for quite some time now for Mozilla QA purposes. I find it far more convenient to simply reload a VM from a snapshot so the OS is back to its original configuration so testing can be done on the same set of data as it was previously. My previous setup was using a dual boot method which got rather messy within a few days of testing Firefox trunk builds with the annoyance of switching between Windows and Linux constantly.

My only problem at the moment with virtualisation is the lack of memory in my machine to efficiently run more than one VM at a time although I’m hoping to get my hands on some extra memory in the next few days to resolve that problem. Aside from that minor inconvenience I find virtualisation a very useful and effective means for testing in different environments. Definitely the way to go for QA.

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