Running tests on Windows via Jenkins ?

[Christopher Bongaarts]

On 7/23/2014 11:55 AM, Ian Young wrote:
> On 23 Jul 2014, at 17:46, Cantor, Scott<cantor.2 at osu.edu>  wrote:
>
>> >I don't know that we even can unless we host on a physical machine. Unless
>> >Intel chips have really advanced, you can't run a VM under a VM, can you?
> Actually, you can now have turtles all the way down:
>
>> >With VMware Fusion 5 and later virtual machines, you have the following advanced options:
>> >■
>> >You can run hypervisor applications such as VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion inside a virtual machine. For example, you can use VMware Fusion to create a virtual machine, install VMware Workstation in that virtual machine, and then use that version of Workstation to create a virtual machine.

You can also do this with VirtualBox, with some odd restrictions (no 
hardware virt after the first level, and you either can't or have to run 
64 bit, I forget which... bumped into this when trying to do 
chef/vagrant stuff in a linux VM on my Windows laptop. :)

So I'll echo Ian's conclusions of "sometimes you can" and "dunno if you 
should", and that an alternate remote VM is probably the easier solution.

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