It's indeed the 2 options I came across. Great to know there are plugins to ease the setup.
Thanks a lot all, I'll look into it. On Sep 12, 2014 11:56 PM, "Mark Waite" <mark.earl.wa...@gmail.com> wrote: > I used the Xvnc plugin with very good results on a Debian configuration a > year or two ago and was very pleased with its results. It started and > stopped VNC sessions as needed for each individual job and reduced the > management overhead significantly for me. > > Mark Waite > > On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 3:34 PM, طلال Anthony-Peter-Thomas رابعة < > anth...@rabaa.ca> wrote: > >> Same here, Xvfb works great. I believe there's a plugin to instantiate a >> new instance of Xvfb with each build but I haven't used it. I run a single >> instance of Xvfb on each slave because our tests can't be run in parallel. >> >> On Sep 12, 2014, at 12:39 PM, Chanda Unmack <cha...@lytro.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 4:27 AM, Laurent Malvert < >> laurent.malv...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I was wondering if there are any recommendations or best practices on a >>> typical setup for running jobs on a Linux slave, when said job contains >>> some unit tests that require access to the GUI? >>> >>> I'd be in favor or keeping these to a minimum, but at the moment we're >>> trying to move our slaves away from Windows nodes (started using the JNLP >>> launcher) to Linux nodes (started over SSH) because of too many issues >>> using the Windows slaves (rather large workspaces with file locking issues >>> when attempting to delete them, etc...). This is working fine so far, >>> except that all our GUI tests are failing as currently our linux slaves are >>> headless. There's a graphical environment installed, but when the SSH slave >>> plugin initiates the connection it opens a normal SSH connection without >>> exporting the display and it doesn't have control of the node's display. >>> >>> So, what would be the proper way to run GUI tests on Linux nodes started >>> using the SSH Slaves Plugin? >>> >>> Thanks in advance for your suggestions. >>> >>> -- >>> Laurent Malvert >>> >>> -- >>> 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/d/optout . >>> >> >> Don't know about proper or best practices, but I've used xvfb (sometimes >> with selenium) in several places. It hasn't been all smooth sailing, but >> it's been reliable enough for our purposes. >> >> ymmv >> chanda >> >> -- >> *C**onfidentiality Notice:* This e-mail, including all attachments, is >> confidential information of Lytro, Inc. If the reader of this e-mail is not >> the intended recipient or its authorized agent, the reader is hereby >> notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is >> prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the >> sender by replying to this message and delete this e-mail immediately. >> >> -- >> 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/d/optout. >> >> -- >> 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/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Thanks! > Mark Waite > > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- 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/d/optout.
