testdrive should have a windows/mac port
Bug #488084 reported by
Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TestDrive |
Fix Released
|
Wishlist
|
Dustin Kirkland | ||
| testdrive (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Wishlist
|
Dustin Kirkland | ||
Bug Description
In order that as many people as possible should be able to test drive Ubuntu ISO images in a VM, it makes sense that testdrive should be 'ported' to Windows and/or Mac. This could also be tied in with supporting VirtualBox, VMWare and Parallels as alternative VM platforms.
Revision history for this message
| Kevin Fullerton (m-launchpad-carshaft-com) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in testdrive: | |
| status: | New → In Progress |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| assignee: | nobody → Dustin Kirkland (kirkland) |
| Changed in testdrive: | |
| status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
| Changed in testdrive (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → In Progress |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| assignee: | nobody → Dustin Kirkland (kirkland) |
Revision history for this message
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in testdrive (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
| Changed in testdrive: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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Attached patch for testdrive which works with Parallels 4 on OS X Leopard (10.5.8)
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INFO: Using Parallels Desktop for virtual machine hosting...
INFO: Syncing the specified ISO...
rsync:
receiving file list ...
1 file to consider
sent 118 bytes received 97 bytes 430.00 bytes/sec
total size is 731777024 speedup is 3403614.07
Removing the VM...
The VM has been successfully removed.
INFO: Creating VM...
Creating the virtual machine...
Generate the VM configuration for ubuntu.
The VM has been successfully created.
Set the memsize parameter to 256Mb.
The VM has been successfully configured.
Remove the hdd0 device.
The VM has been successfully configured.
Creating hdd0 (+) scsi:0 image='
Create the expand image file, 6000Mb...
The VM has been successfully configured.
Creating cdrom0 (+) ide:1 image='
The VM has been successfully configured.
Starting the VM...
The VM has been successfully started.
INFO: You may wish to clean up the cache directory...
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total 1429256
drwxr-xr-x 3 kfullert staff 102B 25 Nov 09:54 ./
drwxr-xr-x 3 kfullert staff 102B 25 Nov 09:29 ../
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kfullert staff 698M 20 Nov 08:20 lucid-desktop-
698M /Users/
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