[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBIDE-10974) Use Xvfb for build jobs instead of Xvnc

Tue Feb 21 09:29:36 EST 2012

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Mickael Istria commented on JBIDE-10974:
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> Please open a ticket with ci-issues at redhat.com requesting this plugin be installed.

Done

> We'd then have to switch some 120 jobs over to use xvfb instead of xvnc, but that should just be a trivial regex replacement exercise.

We could think of a lazy approach: change Xvnc to Xvfb when we meed an issue with UI tests on a job.

> BTW, I've used xvfb before and you CAN remotely login to it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xvfb

Ok, didn't know that. But that means you also need a VNC server for that? Do we really need one? Do we really need to be able to work remotely on the DISPLAY that runs tests? If we can avoid this, it's simpler/better.

> Use Xvfb for build jobs instead of Xvnc
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>                 Key: JBIDE-10974
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-10974
>             Project: Tools (JBoss Tools)
>          Issue Type: Enhancement
>          Components: Build/Releng
>         Environment: any
>            Reporter: Mickael Istria
>            Assignee: Mickael Istria
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> Xvfb is a minimalist in-memory X server, without VNC. For our use-case, Xvfb may be faster and may avoid some of the issues we have with Xvnc.
> A Jenkins plugin exists to use Xvfb in Jenkins: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Xvfb+Plugin
> It requires Xvfb to be install in the slaves we use of IC, and the plugin installed on Jenkins.

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