[QA] vagrant install for windows

[Rachel Thomas]

Hi Zeljko,

Installing NoWindows is turning out to be a lot more complicated than it
looks. I am trying to do it from  the MingW32 Window (Git shell window) as
I run vagrant in that shell to bring up my VM.  I want to bring up Firefox
in the VM shell, and download the NoWindows from there. See this article
for how to install in on a VM;
 http://www.nomachine.com/ar/view.php?ar_id=AR11E00489

 What do I set the terminal DISPLAY too, in order to get  firefox this to
work, as what I tried below did not seem to work?
vagrant at mediawiki-vagrant:~$ export DISPLAY=127.0.0.0
vagrant at mediawiki-vagrant:~$ firefox &
[1] 8706
vagrant at mediawiki-vagrant:~$ Error: cannot open display: 127.0.0.1:0

[1]+  Exit 1                  firefox


Is there anything Xterm/Xclient  related I have to set in addition?

Has anyone else out there using Windows tried installing NoWindows in this
environment?  It would be great if someone else could give it a shot as
well.


Thanks.

--Rachel

*Gnome FOSS Outreach Program for Women Intern
Browser Test Automation, Wikimedia Foundation*


On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Tomislav Plavcic <tplavcic at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Željko Filipin <zfilipin at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Rachel Thomas <rachelqa99 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Unable to pick a platform for the provided browser (RuntimeError)
> >
> > I was getting the same error message on Mac before I have installed
> XQuartz.
> > Looks like you should install NoMachine on Windows:
> >
> > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki-Vagrant/Customizing#Adding_a_gui
> >
> > Could you try and let us know if it works?
>
> Sometimes I get the same error and I'm not using Vagrant (env is
> Ubuntu x64/Ruby2 and tests are run on remote servers). The problem is
> I get it rarely and I cannot reproduce it because when I immediately
> run the test again it goes well.
> I don't have big problems with this but it would be nice to know why
> this is happening. There are some answers on the google which suggest
> error in the code (like this one: http://goo.gl/pVWUm1) but I don't
> think it's the problem here.
>
> --
> Tomislav Plavcic
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> selling any products... Dilbert
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