On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Yuri Astrakhan yastrakhan@wikimedia.orgwrote:
This is an awesome news! Just to through some magic dust into gears - has anyone succeeded in running it under windows? Alternativelly, I wouldn't mind having a vagrant VM that includes GUI & a browser so that no host interaction is needed.
The tests run on Firefox / X11 on the guest VM. To invoke them from a 'vagrant ssh' session, though, you need an X display server. Graphical Linuxes have all the prerequisites installed, and on OS X you just need to install XQuartz. On Windows, people have good things to say about NoMachine (http://www.nomachine.com/download-client-windows.php) but I haven't tested it myself and while the client is free as in beer, it is not open source.
There is another alternative that you'll probably find simpler: edit your Vagrantfile and find these two lines:
# To boot the VM in graphical mode, uncomment the following line: # vb.gui = true
Uncomment the second line and do a vagrant halt / vagrant up. You'll then be able to run the browser tests on an X display server running on the guest VM.