Code review comment for lp:~terceiro/lava-dispatcher/nexus

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 11:19:21PM -0000, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote:
> Antonio Terceiro <email address hidden> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:16:20AM -0000, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote:
> >> Antonio Terceiro <email address hidden> writes:
> >> > +# Working directory for temporary. By default, the usual place for LAVA images
> >> > +# will be used.
> >> > +#
> >> > +# This is useful when the lava dispatcher is controlling Nexus phones that are
> >> > +# physically plugged to other machines. In this case, you should set
> >> > +# nexus_work_directory to a shared directory between the machine running the
> >> > +# dispatcher and the machine where the phone is plugged.
> >>
> >> I don't entirely understand when this would be useful.
> >
> > I will try to explain it better. :)
>
> Did you do this? I'm guessing you use it when LAVA is running in a VM?

Yes! :-)

It works for lava-test-shell, but not for lava-android-test, because the
later syncs files from its installed code base directly into the device
with adb, without using the file_system API call.

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Antonio Terceiro
Software Engineer - Linaro
http://www.linaro.org