Re: Adding tests for Fedora Linux on VMware Workstation/Fusion

On Fri, 2024-11-22 at 11:53 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
> Hey folks,
> 
> I'd like to ask if we could consider adding regular tests for running
> Fedora Linux on VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion. Both products
> are now available for use at no-cost for any purpose[1]. Notably,
> VMware Fusion is the only reasonably supportable hypervisor for Fedora
> Linux VMs on Apple Silicon Macs, and the Fedora KDE SIG *explicitly*
> supports this use-case for Fedora KDE.
> 
> (The other option is Parallels Desktop, but we don't have Parallels
> guest tools in Fedora, and I'm pretty sure we can't because it uses
> its own kernel modules and might not be fully FOSS.)
> 
> Is there a path forward to adding it as a test-case, maybe even with
> some automated testing?

It's already a test case:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_42_Rawhide_20241120.n.0_Installation#Virtualization
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Install_to_VMware

automating it is harder. openQA doesn't have a VMware backend, so we
can't use our existing automation system for it as-is, someone would
have to write one (not me). And even that would only test it on Linux,
which arguably is a bit pointless as I'm not sure most people run
VMware *on Linux*, it is much more commonly used on Windows or macOS.
We have no kind of of framework at all for running automation on
Windows or macOS at present, and I'm not really interested in building
one. If anyone else is, though, fire away :)
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