But you also need a full testing suite that end users can execute on their deployment platform. Jeff Archer Vice President of Software Engineering Nanotronics Imaging jsarcher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <330>819.4615 On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 11:42 PM, Jason E. Aten <j.e.aten@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Martin Sustrik <sustrik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> The problem is that a lot of paths are actually executed only when there >> are multiple machines involved. >> >> Martin >> > > > Getting a standardized distributed test environment is a hard problem > indeed. > > One actually viable solution to testing with multiple machines would be to > use the LXC/vagrant containers to generate multiple machines (LXC > containers) inside a single Xen (or bare iron) image. Here is how to do > this on Linode, for example: > > https://github.com/fgrehm/vagrant-lxc/wiki/Usage-on-Linode > >