WinAPI testing inside a machine emulator

Detlef Riekenberg wine.dev at web.de
Sun Dec 11 10:53:40 CST 2005


Am Freitag, den 25.11.2005, 01:11 +0200 schrieb Saulius Krasuckas:

> > BTW, how do you all folks think -- is it reliable approach to test WinAPI 
> > inside a machine emulator, like a QEmu?  

IMHO, only using "Real Hardware" for Regression-Test give us much less
Results. 

> "machine emulators cannot shoot 100% of original OS functioning".

qemu is really new compared to vmware/virtualpc.

I joined qemu-devel and started to report our/my problems with qemu.

> > I saw some non-failing results once from Detlef qemulated box while on 
> > other boxes tests were failing.

This was "kernel32:threads" on qemu/win98se


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