Unity desktop and maverick backport

[Dustin Kirkland]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Jono Bacon <jono at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 17:58 -0600, Dustin Kirkland wrote:
>> What about trying to use TestDrive for more widespread yet safe
>> Unity-on-Natty testing?
>>
>> Andres Rodriguez put an awesome GTK front end on TestDrive for his
>> GSoC project in the Maverick cycle.  Now, you can configure it and
>> sync and launch VMs from a GUI.  You can optionally rsync/zsync the
>> latest daily ISO and then launch it in either KVM or VirtualBox, all
>> confined within a safe virtual machine environment.
>
> I think if the VM supports 3D acceleration, this would be cool. Would
> you be happy to try it and see if it works?

Will gladly try it, but I don't think we're going to get 3D
acceleration in the VM.  I was thinking of this as an approach for the
2D testing and the overall integration (minus 3D effects).

Dustin