xemu Automated Testing

Performs a suite of tests against a build of xemu, capturing test results and footage of the runs. Currently that suite consists of 1 test: boot to a custom executable that writes a file to the disk. This is a useful test, but there are many tests left to add, and you can help! Pull requests welcome.

This is primarily used for automated testing of xemu pull requests. The xemu CI system uses this repository for testing. The goal is to have a large set of tests that can exercise xemu across a varienty of different platforms/hardware configurations for every change made to xemu. See GitHub Issues on this repository for list of areas that need attention.

Containerized Testing

This testing system is intended to be able to be run inside a container for reproducability and for regular testing on cheap cloud VMs.

To build the container image:

docker build -t xemu-test .

This repository also has GitHub actions set up to automatically build and publish the container image to the GitHub container registry, so you can pull that image for testing:

docker pull ghcr.io/mborgerson/xemu-test:master

Set up the following dir structure:

• /work/results: Results will be copied here
• /work/private: Directory for ROMs and other files
  • /work/private/mcpx.bin
  • /work/private/bios.bin
• /work/inputs: Directory containing xemu build to test
  • /work/xemu.deb

Then run with something like:

docker run --rm -it \
	-v $PWD/results:/work/results \
	-v $PWD/private:/work/private \
	-v $PWD/inputs:/work/inputs \
	-p 5900:5900 \
	ghcr.io/mborgerson/xemu-test:master

xemu is running headless when in the container, so if you need to interact with it you can connect to the container VNC server with:

xtightvncviewer 127.0.0.1

Native Testing

Containers are a great solution generally, but they aren't available on every platform that xemu runs on. The tester can be run outside of a container, provided you have set up the environment correctly. It is a goal for this project to support running the tests natively on all platforms.