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[Francois Gouget]

This week I tweaked the configuration of some VMs. Specifically:

* All Windows 7+ VMs now use Spice for 'display'; remote access really 
  and it goes further than just display like VNC, it also includes 
  forwarding the audio to the client and more.

  But none of this should matter really since nobody connects to the VMs 
  while they are running the tests. Still switching the remoting method 
  from VNC to Spice fixes a bunch of audio tests!

  If I remember correctly we only had two holdouts: w7u and w8. So we'll 
  see if their test results improve (those of this friday may not 
  reflect the new state 100% yet).

* w7pro64 and w864 seem to be doing reasonably well sound-wise: w864 
  does have one failure in the 64 bit mmdevapi:capture & render but not 
  in the 32 bit ones. The w1064 results are not so rosy but it's Windows 
  10 so it's still kind of expected. So maybe removing the soundcard 
  from 64 bit VMs won't be necessary? I'll let Hans and Andrew verify.

* All Windows 7+ VMs also got a new beta TestAgentd which is no longer 
  run from an iconized cmd window. Instead it simply detaches from the 
  console and thus runs without a window.
  This is meant to help with some Direct3D tests and I hope Stefan can 
  remind me of the details.


* I have also created a standalone testcase for the Windows 10 64 bit 
  crash and reported it to QEMU in the hope they can do something about 
  it:
  https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40240 
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1658141

* I also created a standalone testcase for the Spice audio issue 
  mentionned above. I added it to the bug I created 15 months ago in the 
  hope it can help someone reproduce and fix the bug. But given that 
  there's no indication anyone even looked at this bug that's probably a 
  foolish hope.
  https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39442
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1499908

* But I think bugs sometimes get fixed: I tried to reproduce the 
  rasapi32:rasapi Windows 8 64 bit bug and couldn't. That probably means 
  it got fixed by last week's QEMU and Linux kernel upgrades. Yay! 
  https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42185


* Tonight the build VM failed to rebuild Wine:
  https://testbot.winehq.org/JobDetails.pl?Key=27894

  It turns out that some build processes fell victim to the OOM killer! 
  I guess the issue is that 512 MB is not always enough for parallel 
  builds, particularly when one process is building an ~80 MB 
  winetest.exe (though when investigating this I also got the issue with 
  makedep once!).

  So I splurged and doubled the RAM allocated to the VM. The balloon 
  driver will hopefully prevent that from having too much of a 
  performance impact on snapshot reverts.


-- 
Francois Gouget <fgouget at codeweavers.com>