[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBIDE-10974) Use Xvfb for build jobs instead of Xvnc
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Mickael Istria commented on JBIDE-10974:
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Please open a ticket with ci-issues(a)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
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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