Testing with Vagrant

To test mhvtl-gui on different distros, we use vagrant to spin up virtual boxes with different distros and install mhvtl from source on each box.

Prerequisites

To be able to test with Vagrant, you need:

• Vagrant (tested with 2.2.4)
• Virtualbox (tested with 5.2.26)

Test in different Operating Systems

Run any of the following commands to test the code on different GNU/Linux distributions.

Vagrant up ubuntu

or

Vagrant up centos

or

Vagrant up opensuse

The test will build and install mhvtl from source in the virtual machine. If the output looks something like this, then the installation went fine:

...
    ubuntu: Show your tape libraries now!
    ubuntu: [2:0:0:0]    disk    VBOX     HARDDISK         1.0   /dev/sda   /dev/sg0
    ubuntu: [2:0:1:0]    disk    VBOX     HARDDISK         1.0   /dev/sdb   /dev/sg1
    ubuntu: [3:0:0:0]    mediumx STK      L700             0106  -          /dev/sg7
    ubuntu: [3:0:1:0]    tape    IBM      ULT3580-TD5      0106  -          /dev/sg6
    ubuntu: [3:0:2:0]    tape    IBM      ULT3580-TD5      0106  -          /dev/sg11
    ubuntu: [3:0:3:0]    tape    IBM      ULT3580-TD4      0106  -          /dev/sg4
    ubuntu: [3:0:4:0]    tape    IBM      ULT3580-TD4      0106  -          /dev/sg8
    ubuntu: [3:0:8:0]    mediumx STK      L80              0106  -          /dev/sg3
    ubuntu: [3:0:9:0]    tape    STK      T10000B          0106  -          /dev/sg5
    ubuntu: [3:0:10:0]   tape    STK      T10000B          0106  -          /dev/sg2
    ubuntu: [3:0:11:0]   tape    STK      T10000B          0106  -          /dev/sg9
    ubuntu: [3:0:12:0]   tape    STK      T10000B          0106  -          /dev/sg10
    ubuntu: Found some virtual tapes, success!

Cleanup

When you are done, and you want to remove the box, run the following command:

Vagrant destroy -f