[Xen-users] Re: Automate actions

[Molle Bestefich <molle.bestefich@xxxxxxxxx>]

Lars Roland wrote:
> So to my question: is there some way to program the actions (i.e.
> mouse clicks/keyboard strokes) inside the guest OS ? this way we could
> just fire up a Windows guest for each submission and have it
> completely automated.

There's at least a couple of solutions out there that are able to
match graphical patterns and perform automated mouse {moves,clicks}
and keyboard interaction over a VNC connection.

One of them is Eggplant:
http://www.redstonesoftware.com/technology.html

It has a scripting language where you can tell it how to react to
various graphical situations, which GUI controls to manipulate, how
long it should wait for various events to occur, etc.

I haven't tried VT + Xen, so I'm unsure whether a Windows guest will
be accessible via VNC as is the case for non-VT graphical Xen guests. 
The non-VT case uses a frontend device which acts as a 8514 graphics
adapter, I think.  This probably works with VT too?  I guess if it
doesn't, you can always install an actual Windows VNC server inside
your guest and be done with it ;-).

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