That sort of setup has worked fine for me in the past for testing GUI apps on Windows and reporting the results back to the Linux host. Or if a human is going to be launching the job remotely, they can simply use the web UI.ĭepending on the needs of your application under test, you may need to permanently leave a user logged in to the Windows machine (so that an interactive desktop is present), and make sure that the Jenkins agent is running in that user session. Once you have the job passing, you can launch it remotely from another script (say, from the Linux host you mentioned) using the Jenkins remote access API.Once the Windows VM is connected to the Jenkins server, try creating a job in the Jenkins web UI, and see if the server can run it on the Windows VM.On your Windows VM, install Java and follow the Jenkins docs describing how to set up a Windows node.Install the Jenkins server on your Mac (it works fine on Linux as well).The setup steps are fairly straightforward: The most reliable solution may be to use Jenkins.

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