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• The Magnolia webapp runs on the host as usual
• with manual-tests profile
• e.g. mvn clean verify -P jetty6-standalone,manual-tests
• free hint #1: run this build from another location on your machine than the one you typically work at
• free hint #2: run it in offline mode (mvn -o ...) if you just installed one of the modules you want to put under test 

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• Test execution is done from the IDE, i.e. also on the host

Instructions

1. VM Setup

1. Setup your VM and install Ubuntu for example
   1. mount iso image in optical drive
2. In VirtualBox preferences > Network > Host-only Networks, click the add icon
   
   • creates a new virtual network interface e.g. vboxnet0
      
3. In VM Settings > Network
   • 1st slot: select "Host-only Adapter", then choose the one you just created — that vboxnet0
   • 2nd slot: select NAT as is usually the default (to access the interwebs through the host)
4. Install guest additions
• When VirtualBox VM is running
• Devices > Insert Guest Additions CD image...

2. Selenium server setup

1. In the VM, download Selenium Server (formerly the Selenium RC Server)
   
   • http://docs.seleniumhq.org/download/
   • should be something like selenium-server-standalone-2.42.2.jar
   • and then run it, e.g. java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.42.2.jar
2. On your host, adjust AbstractMagnoliaUITest (keep it local)
   
   • Adjust the SELENIUM_SERVER_HOST_NAME system property to your VM's host-name
     • so that UI tests launched from your IDE know where to point selenium's RemoteWebDriver to.
   • Adjust the DOMAIN_PROPERTY system property to your host machine's host-name
     • so that your VM's Firefox can access your running instance on your host machine.
     • mind that the port number may be different, depending on what branch/edition your bundle is currently running

   • Code Block
     language java title AbstractMagnoliaUITest.java
     @BeforeClass public static void setUpOnce() { System.setProperty(SELENIUM_SERVER_HOST_NAME, "<your-vm-hostname>.local"); System.setProperty(DOMAIN_PROPERTY, "http://<your-hostname>.local:8399/"); }

   • Launch a UI test from your IDE to validate the setup
3. Profit

3. Fancy shell script + desktop launcher for the Selenium server

1. Create a new script, e.g. selenium-server on the desktop as follows
   
   • (provided your selenium server jar is on the desktop too)

   • Code Block
     language bash title selenium-server.sh
     #!/bin/bash gnome-terminal -e "java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.42.2.jar"

2. Make it executable
   • chmod +x your-script
   • Go to Nautilus (eq. Finder) preferences
     • Edit > Preferences, "Behavior" tab
     • Tick "Run executable text files when they are opened"
       
       
3. The fancy icon
   • Download it http://www.seleniumhq.org/images/selenium-logo.png and save it locally to e.g. /home/{user}/.icons/
   • Select your script, right-click and go to the file Properties > Click the icon and select yours

Double-click your script and you're good to go! 

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1. just ping
2. try to reach jetty-container (which runs in mac) with firefox which runs on the Linux VM

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