Re: [XTF PATCH v2] xtf-runner: use xl create -Fc directly

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>]

On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 02:06:37PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 08/08/16 12:24, Wei Liu wrote:
> > Now that xl create -c is fixed in xen-unstable, there is no need to keep
> > the hack to get guest console output anymore.
> >
> > Use xl create -Fc directly, then wait for the xl process to exit.  Print
> > any error as it occurs.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
> 
> Sadly, now I think about this further, it does re-introduce the
> serialisation problem I was trying specifically trying to avoid.
> 

Can you give an example of the race you wanted to avoid?

I thought with the xenconsole work in place I had solved all races I was
aware of, but maybe I missed something obvious.

> You need to run `xl create -F` so you can sensibly wait on the create
> list to avoid tripping up the leak detection.
> 
> However, the guest.communicate() call will wait for the guest process to
> terminate, which includes all output.
> 

Is there a problem with that?

> Therefore, I think we still need the `xl create -Fp`, `xl console`, `xl
> unpause` dance, where the create process gets put on the create_list,
> and it is the console process which gets communicated with.
> 
> This also has the advantage that it doesn't cause ./xtf-runner to break
> against all non-staging trees.
> 

I thought we decided to grep log file for that?

Wei.

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