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Hello Technologov,<br>
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the VirtualBox 'Validation Kit' is part of the source tree, which
means that you can build it yourself. Would be a pain if you'd have
multiple platforms (then it becomes a complicated staged build).<br>
<br>
Check
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.virtualbox.org/browser/vbox/trunk/src/VBox/ValidationKit">https://www.virtualbox.org/browser/vbox/trunk/src/VBox/ValidationKit</a>
- it has a variety of tests already. Some need VM images, others
need ISOs, and some tests just need VirtualBox (the misc and API
unit tests).<br>
<br>
More inline.<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2023-05-08 21:04, Alexey Eromenko
via vbox-dev wrote:<br>
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Hi All,
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<div dir="auto">I own a server farm, and I can deploy VirtualBox
Regression Testing (RT), if you can make this part open-source.
We speak about ~3000 CPU cores that are sitting idle. About 90
servers. Mostly Intel Xeon, and a few AMD systems too. All are
equipped with SSDs, and at least 64 GB of RAM. All are running
Debian Linux as host OS.</div>
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Should be already completely open source. Using our own test
framework since we found none which could handle our wishlist (among
other things it needs to be able to deal with spontaneous reboots,
...).<br>
<br>
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<div dir="auto">This could significantly improve VirtualBox
regression testing and test coverage, and reduce amount of
regressions in this complex masterpiece and marvel of
technology.</div>
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<div dir="auto">I won't have time to write new test modules, but I
will have time to maintain hardware and software, collect
results and analyze them.</div>
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The initial setup is quite some effort, mainly to get the test
manager going, create the test configs and making sure that it gets
a feed of relevant VirtualBox builds and has a good set of images
needed for the tests. After that it should be much lower
maintenance.<br>
<br>
There are quite a few tests already, covering a broad range (very
far from complete coverage, we know).<br>
<br>
Klaus<br>
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<div dir="auto">Best wishes,</div>
<div dir="auto">-Technologov.</div>
<span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br>
<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"</div>
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