I'm in a university with a very slow network, and I primarily develop on Docker or other WSL systems. As such, many times when I launch VS Code, it begins to update the server and takes half an hour to complete.
I always use Debian-like distros on the x64 architecture, so I can use the same installer for all these server instances. Is there a way I can stop it from downloading the same file again and again for each remote machine?
I want to unify just the download process that uses the internet; I'm happy to move the file around on my computer and install it separately in each distro (but I should at least be able to hack together a script to do this, if not make this supported directly by the editor).
I have been told that I must run my automation test cases on win10 platform and Chrome.
Our project is based on Chorme Browser.
I am confused ,because we write cases on MacOs,and we could have ran the cases on linux server.
We are using Jenkins+Cypress+Chrome to do automation test.On MacOS,it works well;but when I move the codes to win10,I must modify codes to adapt win10，and I have to solve bugs that never happened on Mac OS.
Are there any different between Linux+Chrome and Windows+Chrome？
Is it necessary for us to run automation test cases on Windows？
Is it necessary for us to run automation test cases on Windows？
No, Cypress can run on several operating systems (including Windows, Linux and MacOS). So there is no need to specifically run the test on a Windows 10 system.
For the browsers you are limited to Chrome and Electron.
Are there any different between Linux+Chrome and Windows+Chrome?
Yes there are differences, for example shortcut key combo's, but there are multiple differences.
I have been told that I must run my automation test cases on win10
platform and Chrome.
Who did tell you that? Without a source or more information about the why we can't help you with that question.
I've developed a OSGi application on my windows machine that is just lovely. How ever I need it to run on my Linux server and this is where I run into problems.
My application has no GUI. It simple works with a console and is command line driven.
My first attempt at deployment I built a product based on my existing run target. It exported fine to a Windows .exe so I added the required delta packs for Linux. The problem with this is it has only two options Linux (GTK) and Linux (MOTIF). My linux server runs on CentOS with no GUI as it is a hosted machine so when I try and deploy it I get a segmentation fault.
I have been searching around as to what to do but I'm not coming up with any answers.
Any help would be much appreciated. I have been banging my head on this one for over a week
Cheers
The google keyword you need is 'xvfb' - it acts like an X server, but ignores everything sent to it, so you don't need any graphics hardware. Try firing that up (make sure you set DISPLAY appropriately).
A cleaner solution would be to figure out why the library is demanding an X server if it works without - perhaps you could update the question with more details.
I want to run multiple versions of MATLAB (with standalone licenses) on a Windows XP home computer. One is MATLAB R2007b and the other is MATLAB R2009a. I found some docs online (link and link), but nothing related to the latest versions. Has anyone tried this?
You can do that, just install the new and the old versions in different directories.
FWIW if you have the chance to run MATLAB R2009b rather than R2009a, you might want to. I haven't looked in detail at the release notes yet, but I noticed already that the language in Simscape has been improved in R2009b + now I have to reinstall it yet again to get the upgrade...
I've been running MATLAB both on my desktop and in a virtual machine successfully for a while now. I happen to be running the same version in both right now, but there's no reason why you couldn't run different versions in and out of the VM. This setup allows me to keep a stable working version of my application available that I can rely upon to satisfy the need to rapidly analyze data while simultaneously having a separate development version that may or may not be fully functioning at any particular time.
You could use Octave which is an open source 'alternative', should sort the issue out nicely
Can I really do this?
As I am reading up on virtualization, I am getting more excited. The latest thing I am realizing, that it may actually be possible to take my existing XP Pro development workstation(VS 2005/vs2008/sql server etc) and simply convert the entire installation to a virtual image and load onto my new box? Sounds to good to be true? Does it really work that easy? If I can take a complete "dump" of a machine and simply move it onto my new workstation, not even need to find all my old install disks, that is truly amazing.
Does one of the VM products support this better than others? that may tip the scales for me to pick one platform over another..
How is it that I have not gotten onto this VM bandwagon sooner!?
Edit/Update: Just as a quick update in case anyone is interest. Got the machine, decided to go with vmware and had a heck of a battle, first trying to figure out which product to use, and then actually getting anything to work. The instructions are not obvious and wasted my 6 hours trying to a) get a vmware working, and b) actually trying to do a conversion of my old XP machine into a VM - never got it working.
In frustration I downloaded MS Virtual PC in minutes, had it up and running in 5 minutes, and was creating VM's within the hour....VERY easy. I haven't however figured out how to convert my old XP machine into a VM - but, now having a VM running, it seems obvious to me that I wouldn't want to actually run a primary development setup in my VW window anyway.
Definitely VMware Converter.
VMware Workstation is the most user friendly and fully-featured app that I've used and is well suited for debugging. Check out an awesome video demo of the record/replay feature here.
VMWare has p2v. By far the easiest solution you could take, and it's pretty easy to convert the VMDK into a VHD if you want to use a different solution.
Three options I have used.
1) Vmware convertor will create an image for you you can move around forever. You can then run it for free in the VMWare player.
I think the easiest thing would be to connect an external drive to your computer, convert a computer into an image onto that drive, plug the drive into another machine, and try it out..
2) Ghost is ghost.. You can use something like norton ghost or a linux equivalent to mirror the drive onto a larger one. If you have driver issues you can do an inplace re-install over the existing xp install and it will replace the drivers and leave all your applications, data, and settings intact.
3) Go Mac. They're strange. You can link two macs up with a firewire cord and it will copy over your entire setup, including virtual machines. I have my laptop backed up and if it dies, I can transfer the identical computer onto another one in minutes as all the internal components in Apple are intel and the drivers are one and the same.
Options I've heard of:
4) Microsoft Virtual PC. A fourth option that I have been hearing good things about is Microsoft Virtual PC. They bought the technology from another company and
5) Citrix - This one is intriguing because it would conceivably work as well, if not better than VMware. At least that's what I hear from my Citrix friend.
Welcome to the club of virtualisation. I set up a virtual machine on my Vista Os and running xp simultaneously. Its great as some apps don't work in 64bit (ie. those old 16bit apps.). You can try Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 its most probably the most user friendly. It's what I use. You can try Virtualbox too.
You can set up a partition and allocate space to the new operating system for this to work. Or use a spare formatted secondary drive if you have one.
Best of luck!
We now do all development in VM's.
The desktops are locked down tight and out IT manager is happy.
We use VirtualBox and it's fine.
There are fairly clear instruction for using physical disks directly for VirtualBox anyway.
The P->V transofer is not terribly hard.
Can't say the same of MS VPC or VMWare.
Here's a link to XenConvert, which is specifically designed for this "P2V" (Physical to Virtual) conversion, to show that the answer to your first question is "yes", it can be done.
http://www.citrix.com/site/ss/downloads/details.asp?downloadId=2318170&productId=683148
However, that tool is designed for stuffing your XP machine's image into a server, rather than onto your desktop machine.
For your more specific problem of doing this for your desktop, you're talking more about "Client Virtualization" (as opposed to Server Virtualization), where tools like XenClient, KVM, Virtual Box, qemu, Parallels, VMWare Workstation, etc. are better suited, and each will have their own P2V conversion technique.