Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...)

[Eduardo Felipe]

But that required some macro interface "click at x,y, wait some seconds,
press 'k' key", that is not currently under QEMU.

It does exist... it's called VNC server. Maybe you can have a look at:

http://www.sodan.org/~penny/vncrec/

or

http://suif.stanford.edu/vncplay/freenix05-html/

I don't know any of them, but they can be useful.

Also this one:

http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/pyvnc2swf.html

It's vncrec compatible and can record and replay sessions.

The best solution I think is to get a way to send QEMU the screenshot to
file command some times and stop the VM when both are equal, then send the
last took screenshot to a mail address so breakability can be checked. (If
it is the login window, great, it BOOTS!, if not, it doesn't)

pyvnc2swf has the ability to create image files from VNC sessions. It is easily customizable and a special instruction could be recorded into the .vnc files meaning:

1) Request a full screen update
2) Turn screen buffer into an image
3) Compare image to reference

Control points could be chosen in recording time and inserted into the .vnc by some key combination.

Regards,
Eduardo