Hi! > Virtualization is the right answer to the testing problem and if people > really insist on running their broken legacy apps past 2038, then stick > them into a VM and charge boatloads of money for that service.
Let me just emphasise this with a short story. Before I release LTP I do a lot of pre-release testruns to make sure that all tests works well on a different distributions and kernel versions. Before I wrote a script that automated this[1] i.e. runs all the tests in qemu and filters out the interesting results it took me a few days of manual labor to finish the task. Now I just schedulle the jobs and after a day or two I get the results. Even if the tested kernel crashes, which happens a lot, the machine is just restarted automatically and the testrun carries on with a next test. All in all the work that has been put into the solution wasn't that big to begin with it took me a week to write a first prototype from a scratch. [1] https://github.com/metan-ucw/runltp-ng -- Cyril Hrubis chru...@suse.cz
