Test Day:2012-05-17 Gnome Boxes

Fedora Test Days
GNOME Boxes
Date	2012-05-17
Time	all day
Website	QA/Fedora_17_test_days
IRC	#fedora-test-day (webirc)
Mailing list	test

Can't make the date?
If you come to this page before or after the test day is completed, your testing is still valuable, and you can use the information on this page to test, file any bugs you find at Bugzilla, and add your results to the results section. If this page is more than a month old when you arrive here, please check the current schedule and see if a similar but more recent Test Day is planned or has already happened.

What to test?

Today's instalment of Fedora Test Day will focus on Gnome Boxes. Gnome Boxes is intuitive application for managing virtual machines targeted towards typical desktop end-users, who just want to automatically install and run different operating systems on their hosts. Gnome Boxes is focused on usability and out of the box user experience with very little input from user.

Who's available

The following cast of characters will be available testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion ...

• Development - Zeeshan Ali (zeenix), Hans de Goede (hansg), Christophe Fergeau (teuf)
• Quality Assurance - Martin Holec (Martix), Adam Williamson (adamw), Petr Schindler (pschindl)

Prerequisite for Test Day

• CPU supporting virtualization, check using this command: egrep '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo If you don't get vmx or svm in output, check if virtualization is enabled in BIOS.
• Free space on HD
• Various operating systems installation ISOs, CD/DVDs and USB sticks:
  • Fedora 16 and 17
  • Windows XP and 7
  • Debian, Ubuntu etc.
• Copy ISOs to Download directory in your home.

How to test?

Install latest Fedora 17 prerelease

Verification
Please check the SHA256SUM is correct before booting!

Architecture	SHA256SUM
x86_64	986a654f90ee8fecea2f5aa8abd58a3b8778753a569363f49148016d763b724d
i386	3ef38ee75d180d4215f82770b3683eb27ca2b56ef3548c003067cfa9fce37702

Hardware profile

• Upload your hardware profile to Smolt according to these instructions

Update system

• After you install Fedora 17 prerelease, make sure you have all the current updates for it installed, using the update manager or running yum update on installed system.

Install Gnome Boxes

Install Gnome Boxes by running: yum install --enablerepo=updates-testing gnome-boxes on installed system.

Test Cases

SELinux
You need to switch SELinux on host to Permissive mode using command setenforce 0 after each boot.

• QA:Testcase Gnome Boxes manual installation
• QA:Testcase Gnome Boxes express installation (unattended installation)
• QA:Testcase Gnome Boxes basic usage
• QA:Testcase Gnome Boxes box configuration
• QA:Testcase Gnome Boxes box removal

Resources
Unless hosts are very powerful, you should not have more than 2 boxes running at a time.

Test Results

If you have problems with any of the tests, report a bug to Gnome Bugzilla usually for the component gnome-boxes, or to RedHat Bugzilla for the component gnome-boxes for Fedora specific bugs (installer, integration, etc.). If you are unsure about exactly how to file the report or what other information to include, just ask on IRC and we will help you. Once you have completed the tests, add your results to the Results table below, following the example results from the first line as a template. The first column should be your name with a link to your User page in the Wiki if you have one, and the second should be a link to the Smolt profile of the system you tested. For each test case, use the result template to enter your result, as shown in the example result line.

User	Smolt Profile	Manual install	Express install	Usage	Configuration	Removal	References
Sample User	HW	none	pass	pass	warn	fail
User:vbenes	N/A	pass	fail	fail	pass	pass
Martix	T420s	warn	pass	warn	pass	pass
User:pschindl	N/A	none	fail	none	none	none
Luya Tshimbalanga	HW	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass