Francois wrote:
(*) A particularly interesting one to me is testing untrusted code on real hardware (with possible approaches being direct access to a graphics card from within a VM
I had some fun googling your wishlist. Presumably you've seen some of these links already:
http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_VGA_Passthrough http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/10/nvidias-vgx-cards-brin...
or network booting (plus remote controlled power switch?), Grub tricks).
http://www.amd64.org/support/automated-test-infrastructure.html looks like it does all of the above? http://developer.amd.com/tools/opensource/AMDTapper/Pages/default.aspx
A few other possibly interesting links: http://wiki.debian.org/GrubReboot http://www.passmark.com/products/rebooter.htm http://people.redhat.com/mrodrigu/slides/linuxcon-2011-autotest-lmr There are many similar pages, all somewhat buried, stale, and possibly too specific.
Another may be testing on non-VM friendly OSes, specifically Mac OS X, though that may just be a matter of doing a more in-depth Google search to find a legal and libvirt-compatible solution.
vmware seems to work, though I haven't tried it myself yet: http://lsimons.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/libvirt-vmware-fusion-mac-os-x/
- Dan
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Dan Kegel