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Summary of problem:
- Xephyr is a root only environment
- Limited test resources
- Community requires access to application stack

What is the goal for testing, what do you want to test?
- get testers access to virtual environment for testing

• - non root environment
  

- test apps like network-manager and opengl
- give developers access to the system for easier porting of application stacks.
- Barrier to access may not be reduced to 0 since UME is not ready for average user.
- I think that testing everything in general terms but confirmation of issues in xephyr (for now) and vm in general are important too :)
- On hw I think the important things to test will be those that can not be tested on vm. Games, net access, n-m, effects (ie the flash desktop). Plus physical HW touch screen, sound, ports.

Possible solutions:
- Live CD solution suggested that may be a better solution for hardware testing such as Compiz/wifi/etc.
- Qemu is still the quickest and best solution for the short term
- Script to create KVM image is available

(In re virtualized opengl support, anyone know the state of http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~andreslc/xen-gl/?)<<BR>> - rootfs builder using hooks to create x86 images from UME builds
- Working VM image is available now. Scheduled release for VM enabled needs to be created and organized.
- https://code.launchpad.net/~mvo/ubuntu-mobile/simple-image-builder

Roadblocks:
Define what can and cannot be done in VM

Todo:
- Notify StevenK to build with a different video driver
- Talk to david and matt about getting Davmor2 a Q1 in the meantime

Next step:
- What are the variants (mvo)
- Once the variants are determined tell Steve to build with different drivers
- Create a new flavor (ume-kvm) Yes please :)