TestingMatrix.md

Testing Matrix for the mvm project

Testing Methods

Some of the testing is provided by a Jenkins pipeline, but most of the testing is currently done by hand.

Runs on

	macOS Host	Windows Host	Linux Host
UTM	Available	N/A	N/A
HyperV	N/A	Available	N/A
VirtualBox	Available	Available	Available
VMware	Available	Available	Available
QEMU	Available	Available	Available
KVM	N/A	N/A	Available

Capabilities

	Hypervisor Type	Provides Emulation	provides HW Virtualization	Nested Virtualization
UTM	2	Yes	Yes	in some cases
HyperV	1	??	Yes	Yes, only for Windows guests
VirtualBox	2	Yes	Yes	If supported by initial guest
VMware	2	??	Yes	If supported by initial guest
QEMU	2	Yes	Yes	if supported by initial guest
KVM	1	??	Yes	??

Tested - guest on a Host hardware

Time has allowed for the following

	macOS Host	Windows Host	Linux Host
UTM	Yes	N/A	N/A
HyperV	N/A	Yes	N/A
VirtualBox	Yes	Yes	Yes (nested vm)
VMware	Yes	No	No
QEMU	(via UTM)	No	No
KVM	No	No	No

OS's Tested

Time has allowed for the following

	macOS guest	Windows guest	Linux guest
macOS	Yes	Not Supported	Not Supported
Windows	Yes	Yes	No
Debian	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ubuntu	Yes	Yes	Yes
Rocky Linux	Yes	No	No
Alma Linux	Yes	No	No

As a Guest on macOS

Time has allowed for the following

	macOS	Windows	Debian	Ubuntu	Rocky	Alma
UTM	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
HyperV	N/A	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
VirtualBox	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No
VMware	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
QEMU	(via UTM)	(via UTM)	(via UTM)	No	No	No
KVM	N/A	No	No	No	No	No

As a Guest on Windows

Time has allowed for the following

Virtualbox - Debian & Ubuntu
HyperV - Ubuntu & Windows

As a Guest on Linux

Time has allowed for the following - project doesn't have hardware to put Linux on to test guest OSs. Linux Guest OS's on a Linux Host have to be tested in a hyperV provided Linux OS, where the guest inside the Linux OS being emulated rather than virtualized.

Virtualbox (Emulated as a VM in a Ubuntu VM, on HyperV)- Debian