karma-virtualbox-launcher

Launcher for using VirtualBox VMs

This is a little launcher I developed for using VirtualBox VMs with various flavors of Internet Explorer to test using Karma.

Usage

For now, there is a hard dependency on my fork of node-virtualbox

npm install karma-virtualbox-launcher --save-dev

Configure your karma.conf.js

[snip]
customLaunchers: {
    'IE8': {
        base: 'VirtualBoxBrowser',
        config: {
            vm_name: 'IE8 - Win7', // configured name of your Virtualbox VM
            use_gui: true // use VirtualBox GUI mode, by default runs headless
        }
    },
    'IE9': {
        base: 'VirtualBoxBrowser',
        config: {
            vm_name: 'IE9 - Win7' // configured name of your Virtualbox VM
        }
    }
},

// start these browsers
// available browser launchers: https://npmjs.org/browse/keyword/karma-launcher
browsers: ['IE8', 'IE9'],
[/snip]

Limitations / Known Issues

• For now, only works with NAT networking on guest OSes.
• Need to test in non-Windows host environments.
• Only supports IE at the moment.
• No killing of guest browsers (yet).
• One karma.conf.js per VM.