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[Michael Hudson <michael.hudson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Hudson wrote:
> Robert Collins wrote:
>> On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 14:09 +0000, Bjorn Tillenius wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> It's not tragic, because I can use a VNC server instead, but it worries
>>>> me that our test suite and xvfb-run can so easily stop working together.
>>> s/xvfb-run/any external dependency/. We have a lot of problems with the
>>> test suite stop working between Ubuntu releases.
>> Can I suggest a test job in buildbot that just reports on the status in
>> the development Ubuntu version. Forewarned == four armed, etc.
> 
> It's not buildbot, but it's fairly easy to run the tests on EC2 against
> a newer version of Ubuntu, you just run "./utilites/ec2 test -m
> based-on:$ami" where $ami is a blank ami of the desired distro series
> that lets you log in as root with the key pair you provide when you
> launch the instance...
> 
> ... which is actually a slight problem, as both the official AMIs and
> the recent ones produced by Eric Hammond let you log in as 'ubuntu', a
> user with passwordless sudo with the keys you provide on instance
> launch.  But it shouldn't be hard to fix the code to match this.

bzr+ssh://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mwhudson/launchpad/ec-log-in-as-ubuntu

does this.  I'm running a test on a Karmic image now.

Cheers,
mwh