From: Stefan Doesinger
Greg's testbot looks pretty useful by now, but for me it has one major problem: It cannot run D3D tests because it is stuck in a virtual machine.
I understand that the core of Winetestbot will stay in VMs, but is there a way we can extend it with extra machines? I have a few spare boxes with different GPUs here that could be used to run the tests. What I need is basically:
*) Some magic patchwatcher software I can install on these boxes *) A Server this software talks to to get patch jobs and report the
results
back. *) Depending on the load, configure my machines to run d3d-related tests
only
and leave others to the VMs.
Now I guess it is important that if one of those extra test boxes
dies(e.g. I
turn off my computers when I am away for a while) that this doesn't break
the
testbot as a whole because it is waiting for test results. For starters I
think
security is not that much of an issue, as long as I can firewall the
machine
(via my router) and prevent it from connecting to anything but the testbot master.
Does the Testbot infrastructure allow this?
Currently, no, it doesn't. But it certainly seems something that can be added. I'll investigate a bit what it will take.
Ge.