We're running a Jenkins server on one machine that monitors the SVN repository and performs the complete build of the project. It's using a custom PowerShell script which basically just finds and runs MSBuild, Dotfuscator and InnoSetup. The resulting setup executable shall then be transfered to a number of slave nodes which are Hyper-V virtual machines, for GUI testing under different operating systems. I've already set up the slave node and after a lot of guesswork and try&error, it finally copies over the setup.exe and runs it. We don't have a GUI test tool yet, so that's still left to be done.
Now the problem lies in the VM management. I've just tried it once to revert the slave VM to a clean snapshot - with the computer in running state and the Jenkins agent also running - and then wanted the Jenkins slave work to start right afterwards. But the problem is that after reverting the VM, while the Jenkins agent is still running, all external resources like network connections are broken and nobody knows. And it takes a lot of time for both to recover from that. The server still thinks for a while that the client is still there, and the client still thinks that it's connected. But nothing works and the job eventually fails with a Jenkins internal exception that seems to come from the broken network connection. A while after that, the connection recovers and the node comes back available again. This doesn't exactly seem to work. I've found some hint on the web to tell the Jenkins server via its web API to "doDisconnect" a certain slave node, but that URL is only 404'd. Since there is virtually no API documentation of Jenkins at all, I cannot correct this method or even tell whether it was entirely made up. So, with the workflow: * Build on the master * Revert the slave VM (Hyper-V) to a running snapshot * Start another job on a slave What would be the suggested process? How can I get Jenkins to work in this environment? Does it even work at all? We're all Windows, with scripting in CMD or PowerShell, no Bash supported. I still need to find an automation script for Hyper-V control, but that should be possible. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
