Xvfb on Windows

Ralk picture Ralk · Dec 12, 2016 · Viewed 13.7k times · Source

I'm using pyvirtualdisplay to run a test with a headless Firefox browser. This is the code I'm using :

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from pyvirtualdisplay import Display

display= Display(visible=0, size=(320, 240)).start()  # visible=0
display.start()
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("https://google.com")

display.quit()

And the traceback that I obtain :

easyprocess.EasyProcessCheckInstalledError: cmd=['Xvfb','-help']

Answer

Corey Goldberg picture Corey Goldberg · Dec 12, 2016

You can't use pyvirtualdisplay on Windows.

It is just a wrapper that calls Xvfb. Xvfb is a headless display server for the X Window System. Windows does not use the X Window System.