An alternative would be xvfb ... I remember that I invested days and even weeks in trying to get a Flexmojos CI build up and running on a Linux machine:
https://dev.c-ware.de/confluence/display/PUBLIC/Building+Flexmojos+on+a+Headless+64Bit+Ubuntu+10.04+CI-Server After getting the virtual Screen stuff up and running, I ran into loads of Problems with the Linux FlashPlayer and finally gave up renting a Windows Amazon EC2 Node because I would rather pay a few bucks for the Windows Machine than ruin my sanity by getting the FlashPlayer up and running on Linux by my headless CI Server ;-) Chris ________________________________________ Von: wim.deblauwe <wim.debla...@gmail.com> Gesendet: Dienstag, 7. Januar 2014 12:29 An: users@flex.apache.org Betreff: Re: AW: Running unit tests with flashplayer under wine VNC is there because I run jenkins as a service on Ubuntu, so there is no graphical display available. 2014/1/7 Tom Chiverton [via Apache Flex Users] < ml-node+s2333346n4375...@n4.nabble.com> > Wow, complicated. > > Are you trying to work around the fact your Jenkins machine is headless > ? Or something else ? Basically, why is VNC here at all ? > > Tom > > On 07/01/2014 09:23, wim.deblauwe wrote: > > > I am not totally in the clear yet. I don't have it working through > jenkins > > yet. > > > > * I have installed vnc4server package (sudo apt-get install vnc4server) > and > > the vnc plugin in jenkins. > > * I have set the option in the build settings of my project to start > vnc. > > * I can connect using vinagre to this desktop > > * I have checked that the DISPLAY variable is set in a pre-build step by > > running: echo $DISPLAY > > * If I start vncserver manually, set the DISPLAY manually and then run > my > > 'flashplayer' script, I see the flashplayer starting in the remote > desktop. > > > > I have the feeling that wine does not seem to pick up the display > variable > > for some reason. > > > > All ideas welcome! > > > > regards, > > > > Wim > > > > > > > > -- > > View this message in context: > http://apache-flex-users.2333346.n4.nabble.com/Running-unit-tests-with-flashplayer-under-wine-tp4284p4374.html > > > Sent from the Apache Flex Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud > service. > > For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion > below: > > http://apache-flex-users.2333346.n4.nabble.com/Running-unit-tests-with-flashplayer-under-wine-tp4284p4375.html > To unsubscribe from Running unit tests with flashplayer under wine, click > here<http://apache-flex-users.2333346.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=unsubscribe_by_code&node=4284&code=d2ltLmRlYmxhdXdlQGdtYWlsLmNvbXw0Mjg0fDExMzA2NTE5NDc=> > . > NAML<http://apache-flex-users.2333346.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=macro_viewer&id=instant_html%21nabble%3Aemail.naml&base=nabble.naml.namespaces.BasicNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NabbleNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NodeNamespace&breadcrumbs=notify_subscribers%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-instant_emails%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-send_instant_email%21nabble%3Aemail.naml> > -- View this message in context: http://apache-flex-users.2333346.n4.nabble.com/Running-unit-tests-with-flashplayer-under-wine-tp4284p4380.html Sent from the Apache Flex Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
