Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Don't enable networking as a side-effect of DEBUG=1

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 06:55:45PM -0300, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> On 07/12/2017 01:25 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > When trying to debug problems with tests it is natural to set
> > DEBUG=1 when starting the docker environment. Unfortunately
> > this has a side-effect of enabling an eth0 network interface
> > in the container, which changes the operating environment of
> > the test suite. IOW tests with fail may suddenly start
> > working again if DEBUG=1 is set, due to changed network setup.
> > 
> > Add a separate NETWORK=1 option to allow enablement of
> > networking separately from DEBUG=1, since common debugging
> > tasks probably don't require networking anyway.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >   tests/docker/Makefile.include | 4 +++-
> >   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/tests/docker/Makefile.include b/tests/docker/Makefile.include
> > index 037cb9e..a8c4b82 100644
> > --- a/tests/docker/Makefile.include
> > +++ b/tests/docker/Makefile.include
> > @@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ docker:
> >   	@echo '                         (default is 1)'
> >   	@echo '    DEBUG=1              Stop and drop to shell in the created container'
> >   	@echo '                         before running the command.'
> > +	@echo '    NETWORK=1            Enable eth0 virtual network interface.'
> 
> "eth0" is not always true...
> 
> This patch could be more generic, maybe documented as:
> 
>   NETWORK=host     Use full host network stack (default no network).'
> 
> >   	@echo '    NOUSER               Define to disable adding current user to containers passwd.'
> >   	@echo '    NOCACHE=1            Ignore cache when build images.'
> >   	@echo '    EXECUTABLE=<path>    Include executable in image.'
> > @@ -132,7 +133,8 @@ docker-run: docker-qemu-src
> >   		$(SRC_PATH)/tests/docker/docker.py run 			\
> >   			$(if $(NOUSER),,-u $(shell id -u)) -t 		\
> >   			$(if $V,,--rm) 					\
> > -			$(if $(DEBUG),-i,--net=none) 			\
> > +			$(if $(DEBUG),-i,)				\
> > +			$(if $(NETWORK),,--net=none)			\
> 
> and here use directly:  --net=${NETWORK:-none}
> 
> so an experimented docker user could even run tests as:
> 
>   make docker-test-quick@centos6 NETWORK=container:qemu
> 
> (or NETWORK=bridge)

This is a nice idea, though slightly more complicated. It would be good
to support NETWORK=1 as a short-cut for enabling the default docker
network backend, as well as being able to give an explicit backend for
those who really care about the flexibility.


Regards,
Daniel
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