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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 ...

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
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.
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
Pass pass
Warning warn
[1]
Fail fail
[2]
  1. ↑ Test pass, but also encountered RHBZ #54321
  2. ↑ RHBZ #12345
User:vbenes N/A
none
Fail fail
[1]
Fail fail
[2]
none
none
  1. ↑ mouse not working 676225
  2. ↑ cannot go back from fullscreen 676222
Martix T420s
Warning warn
[1] [2] [3]
Pass pass
Warning warn
[4]
none
Pass pass
  1. ↑ SIGSEGV gvir_connection_find_storage_pool_by_name, Gnome Bugzilla #676216 workaround: host reboot
  2. ↑ tested guests: F17
  3. ↑ frozen after success F17 install and reboot Gnome Bugzilla #676230 workaround: rerun Boxes
  4. ↑ rendering artefacts when moving window in guest #676233
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