RoAkSoAx’s Weblog

This week’s update brings:

TestDrive

• Improvements on handling the syncing protocols.
• Changes that were necessary to provide VirtualBox and Parallels Threading for the Front-end.
• [kirkland] Change for KVM video mode from vmware back to cirrus.

TestDrive GTK Front-end

• Threading: Support has been added for threading using VirtualBox, however, it still needs improvements. For now, it will be a little bit slow.
• Other ISOs: Support for other ISO’s has been added, which means that now we are able to TestDrive ISO’s from other distributions by specifying the URL of the ISO. Also supports local ISO’s. Currently it only supports the addition of ISOs. In the near future, it will support the erasing as well.
• Maverick: There’s a build now available for maverick at TestDrive PyGTK PPA (see below).

If you would like to test the new release in maverick or lucid please do the following:

Adding PPAs:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:testdrive/ppa
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:testdrive-gtk/ppa
sudo apt-get update

Installation:

sudo apt-get install testdrive testdrive-gtk

If you would like to keep track of the project, please refer to the following:

• Wikipage: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TestdriveFrontend
• Blueprint: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-maverick-testdrive-frontend-gsoc
• Testing: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TestdriveFrontend/Testing

You can also find me (RoAkSoAx) and my mentor (Dustin Kirkland – kirkland) on IRC at:

• IRC Channel: #testdrive