Francois Gouget fgouget@codeweavers.com wrote:
recently the set of VMs suggested to run the tests on by default has changed. It no more includes NT4, XP and Vista (although it does include win2000), 32-bit VMs for NT4, XP and Vista don't even exist in the list of available VMs (64-bit XP and Vista do exist, but for some reason are not used).
Is there a reason for that?
I assume you mean on https://testbot.winehq.org/ which is the old WineTestBot.
Yes, that's what I meant, since apparently it's still an officially used one.
If so then the reason is that a bunch of VMs appear to be on a host for which the VMware license expired (my guess) which means they can no longer be used.
So to avoid having essentially every job stuck in the 'running' state indefinitely (the symptom of this particular failure mode), I marked them as offline and the WineTestBot no longer lets you schedule jobs on them.
As I've pointed out, 64-bit XP and Vista VMs do exist and work just fine, please include at least them in the default VM set.
I'd point you to the new WineTestBot but it does not have NT4 and Windows 2000 VMs if you were specifically looking for those.
Same for win2000 VMs, they exist and work just fine. I asked about NT4 since it was used before and it's nice to have to see what APIs don't exist on that platform.
It does have shinny Windows 8 VMs with tons of test failures though. Ain't that enticing!?
Probably for someone with a lot of free time on their hands, that person definitely is not me.