[Pyvix-discuss] Anything I should know about pyvix before using it for serious work?

[Tim W. <Tim...@he...>]

Hi,

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I've been asked to create some test scripts to test programs running on
VMware servers.

The programs I'm testing are batch-style programs: set up some files,
run the program, look at the output files.

The Vix interface appears sufficient for this.

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Seeing that the Vix library has C, Perl, and Python bindings available,
my boss chose Python.

Currently I'm working on Windows, but unix is also available.

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I've started writing the tests using the standard unittest module.

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Simple things seem to work OK, but now I have started running multiple
tests involving connecting and disconnecting to a VM, the python process
is crashing ("python.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close").
The crashes seem to be related to closing a VM, either explicitly or
when the python program is exiting.

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Is there anything that anyone thinks I ought to know about pyvix or Vix
in general?

Any general recommendations?  Any patches folks have created?

Any specific hints on compiling pyvix and running under a debugger (to
try and find out why it's crashing) (Win or unix)?

Anyone interested in problems with pyvix?

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Thanks in advance,

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Tim