Testdrive 3.14 doesn't work with Virtualbox in Natty

[mike stewart]

The documentation is pretty limited but suggests testdrive will work with either KVM or Virtualbox. I have Virtualbox installed and working well.

I'm on Natty 11.04 with current updates. I installed testdrive (3.14-0ubuntu1~ppa4) as follows:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:testdrive/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install testdrive
sudo apt-get install testdrive-cli

$ testdrive

INFO: version passed: False
INFO: config passed: None
INFO: Trying config in /etc/testdriverc
INFO: Using configuration in /etc/testdriverc
INFO: Trying config in /path/to/home/.testdriverc
INFO: Trying config in /path/to/home/.config/testdrive/testdriverc
INFO: Using KVM for virtual machine hosting...
INFO: Obtaining Ubuntu ISO list from rsync://cdimage.ubuntu.com/cdimage...
INFO: Retrieving the Ubuntu ISO list from cache...

Welcome to Testdrive!

  1. Ubuntu Desktop (oneiric-i386)
  2. Ubuntu Alternate (oneiric-i386)
  3. Ubuntu DVD (oneiric-i386)
  4. Ubuntu Server (oneiric-i386)
  5. Other (prompt for ISO URL)

Select an image to testdrive [1]: 1
INFO: Syncing the specified ISO...
      rsync://cdimage.ubuntu.com/cdimage/daily-live/current/oneiric-desktop-i386.iso

receiving incremental file list
oneiric-desktop-i386.iso
   730116096 100% 1.51MB/s 0:07:40 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1)

sent 48 bytes received 730361311 bytes 1575752.66 bytes/sec
total size is 730116096 speedup is 1.00
INFO: Validating Virtualization Method....
sh: kvm-ok: not found
INFO: Setting up Virtual Machine...
Creating disk image [/path/to/home/.cache/testdrive/img/testdrive-disk-NAETWx.img]...
sh: kvm-img: not found
Command failed
    `kvm-img create -f qcow2 /path/to/home/.cache/testdrive/img/testdrive-disk-NAETWx.img 6G`
INFO: Launching Virtual Machine...
Running the Virtual Machine...
 kvm -m 1024 -smp 2 -cdrom /path/to/home/.cache/testdrive/iso/ubuntu_oneiric-desktop-i386.iso -drive file=/path/to/home/.cache/testdrive/img/testdrive-disk-NAETWx.img,if=virtio,cache=writeback,index=0,boot=on -usb -usbdevice tablet -net nic,model=virtio -net user -soundhw es1370 -vga cirrus
/bin/sh: kvm: not found
INFO: Cleaning up disk image [/path/to/home/.cache/testdrive/img/testdrive-disk-NAETWx.img]...
INFO: You may wish to clean up the cache directory...
      /path/to/home/.cache/testdrive/iso and /path/to/home/.cache/testdrive/img

[mike stewart (mdrmike)]

should have mentioned /etc/testdriverc is not created / does not exist.

also doesnt seem to create

~/.cache/testdrive or ~/.testdriverc/

[Jackson Doak (noskcaj)]

Natty is no longer supported and no one has confirmed this bug