Virtualization for in-house testing

[brent]

Has anyone used virtualization (Hyper-V or VMWare) for in-house testing?
Specifically a Windows 11 VM for the Automated RT Tester PC, and a Ubuntu VM for the netload testing.
I understand this isn't officially supported, but I'm looking to simplify the in-house testing hardware needs and footprint.

[j.rost]

Has anyone used virtualization (Hyper-V or VMWare) for in-house testing?
Specifically a Windows 11 VM for the Automated RT Tester PC, and a Ubuntu VM for the netload testing.
I understand this isn't officially supported, but I'm looking to simplify the in-house testing hardware needs and footprint.

Hi,

the Windows 11 VM for the ART should be working, as long as you either take care that you have L2 access to the NIC via which the ANEL PowerOutlet is connected or you use the with V2.46.0 newly introduced Anel Power Outlet V2 setting (which uses TCP/IP and the new introduced ANEL REST-API). The connection to the ETS is working via standard TCP/IP and is expected to work.

The Netload Test is a more special topic. It depends on what kind of quality assessment you want to achieve with the test. The currently required IPC, as defined in the test specification, was verified that it achieves sufficient performance on the required load. With any other platform this is not guaranteed, especially not virtualized network interfaces. This test will be migrated to the ART tester with the next officially released ART/ETS version. Then it should be possible. Until then I would not use this one in a VM.

If you have any follow-up questions, please feel free to reach out.

Best Regards
Julian

[brent]

Has anyone used virtualization (Hyper-V or VMWare) for in-house testing?
Specifically a Windows 11 VM for the Automated RT Tester PC, and a Ubuntu VM for the netload testing.
I understand this isn't officially supported, but I'm looking to simplify the in-house testing hardware needs and footprint.

Hi,

the Windows 11 VM for the ART should be working, as long as you either take care that you have L2 access to the NIC via which the ANEL PowerOutlet is connected or you use the with V2.46.0 newly introduced Anel Power Outlet V2 setting (which uses TCP/IP and the new introduced ANEL REST-API). The connection to the ETS is working via standard TCP/IP and is expected to work.

The Netload Test is a more special topic. It depends on what kind of quality assessment you want to achieve with the test. The currently required IPC, as defined in the test specification, was verified that it achieves sufficient performance on the required load. With any other platform this is not guaranteed, especially not virtualized network interfaces. This test will be migrated to the ART tester with the next officially released ART/ETS version. Then it should be possible. Until then I would not use this one in a VM.

If you have any follow-up questions, please feel free to reach out.

Best Regards
Julian

Thanks Julian.
So when you say "next officially released ART/ETS version", does that mean ~August 2026 time frame?