Re: [OSSTEST Nested PATCH v11 6/7] Compose the main recipe of nested test job

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>]

On Tue, 2015-09-01 at 15:41 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Hi Robert.  Sorry I haven't had a chance to look at your whole v11
> series properly yet.  But I will reply here:
> 
> Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [OSSTEST Nested PATCH v11 6/7] Compose the main 
> recipe of nested test job"):
> > Then on power operation the appropriate method each object is called in
> > turn (so you can call multiple modules if needed by the host).
> 
> Ian's explanation is right.
> 
> > > So how shall I assign $ho->{Power} method? by statically through 
> > > config
> > > file?
> > > or some generic way automatically identify $host is some guest, 
> > > therefore
> > > assign 'guest' to $ho->{Power}?
> > > Would you give me some idea? thanks.
> > 
> > I'm not sure. Something in selecthost would need to know somehow that 
> > the
> > host being requested was actually an L1 guest.
> 
> I think this would be correct.
> 
> > Ian, any ideas?
> 
> I was expecting there to be a runvar which would for an L1 guest give
> the ident of its host.  ts-nested-setup would set this runvar and
> selecthost would look at it.
> 
> There are various possible exact syntaxes but I think the best one is
> probably that the runvar which ordinarily gives the name of a real
> host instead contains the containing host name and the L1 guest name.
> 
> So if you do
>   ./ts-nested-setup l0_host l1
> then you get a runvar `l1' with value `l0_host:l1'.
> 
> selecthost would see the colon, and set $ho->{Host} to `l0_host', so
> that get_target_property's recursion into containing hosts works
> properly.
> 
> selecthost would also be able to see that $ho->{Host} being set meant
> it was a nested guest, and that therefore power operations should be
> done by running toolstack operations on the host.  (Rather than
> looking up a host property.)
> 
> It also needs to arrange that for an L1 (well, anything with
> $ho->{Host} aka the _nestedhost runvar),

ITYM:         aka a host runvar containing a colon),

Ian.