From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
Subject: [PULL 07/10] tests/docker: improve handling of docker probes
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2026 13:34:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260302123413.274700-8-thuth@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260302123413.274700-1-thuth@redhat.com>
From: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
The docker.py script has logic to guess the container command and
detects one of
* docker
* sudo -n docker
* podman
but the "docker.py probe" command then throws away the detected argv
and prints a slightly different argv based solely on the detected
argv[0]. The result is that 'probe' will print
* docker
* sudo docker
* podman
which means that if sudo was detected & the result of 'probe' were
used directly, it would end up prompting for password interaction
every time.
The 'configure' script, however, runs 'probe' and then throws away
the printed argv again, reporting only 'podman' or 'docker', which
is used to set the $(RUNC) variable for tests/docker/Makefile.include
which is in turn used to pass --engine to docker.py. So the docker.py
command will re-detect the need for 'sudo -n' and use it correctly
The problem with this is that some commands in Makefile.include do
not call docker.py at all, they invoke $(RUNC) directly. Since
configure threw away the 'sudo' command prefix Makefile.in won't
be adding either 'sudo' or 'sudo -n', it'll just run plain 'docker'
which is wrong.
This commit sanitizes things so that the 'docker.py probe' prints
out the exact detected ARGV, and configure fully preserves this
ARGV when setting $(RUNC). Since "$(RUNC)" is no longer just a bare
engine name, however, we must now also set the $(CONTAINER_ENGINE)
variable for Makefile.include so it can pass something sane to
the --engine arg for docker.py
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20260210163556.713841-2-berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
---
configure | 19 +++++++------------
tests/docker/Makefile.include | 5 +++--
tests/docker/docker.py | 7 +------
3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 5e114acea28..b99ba65d718 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1319,17 +1319,11 @@ fi
##########################################
# functions to probe cross compilers
-container="no"
-runc=""
+runc="no"
if test $use_containers = "yes" && (has "docker" || has "podman"); then
- case $($python "$source_path"/tests/docker/docker.py --engine "$container_engine" probe) in
- *docker) container=docker ;;
- podman) container=podman ;;
- no) container=no ;;
- esac
- if test "$container" != "no"; then
- docker_py="$python $source_path/tests/docker/docker.py --engine $container"
- runc=$container
+ runc=$($python "$source_path"/tests/docker/docker.py --engine "$container_engine" probe)
+ if test "$runc" != "no"; then
+ docker_py="$python $source_path/tests/docker/docker.py --engine $container_engine"
fi
fi
@@ -1449,7 +1443,7 @@ probe_target_compiler() {
esac
for host in $container_hosts; do
- test "$container" != no || continue
+ test "$runc" != no || continue
test "$host" = "$cpu" || continue
case $target_arch in
# debian-all-test-cross architectures
@@ -1771,8 +1765,9 @@ echo all: >> $config_host_mak
echo "SRC_PATH=$source_path" >> $config_host_mak
echo "TARGET_DIRS=$target_list" >> $config_host_mak
echo "GDB=$gdb_bin" >> $config_host_mak
-if test "$container" != no; then
+if test "$runc" != no; then
echo "RUNC=$runc" >> $config_host_mak
+ echo "CONTAINER_ENGINE=$container_engine" >> $config_host_mak
fi
echo "SUBDIRS=$subdirs" >> $config_host_mak
if test "$rust" != disabled; then
diff --git a/tests/docker/Makefile.include b/tests/docker/Makefile.include
index 38467cca610..7d4582b6a8d 100644
--- a/tests/docker/Makefile.include
+++ b/tests/docker/Makefile.include
@@ -16,8 +16,9 @@ DOCKER_DEFAULT_REGISTRY := registry.gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu
endif
DOCKER_REGISTRY := $(if $(REGISTRY),$(REGISTRY),$(DOCKER_DEFAULT_REGISTRY))
-RUNC ?= $(if $(shell command -v docker), docker, podman)
-DOCKER_SCRIPT=$(SRC_PATH)/tests/docker/docker.py --engine $(RUNC)
+CONTAINER_ENGINE = auto
+DOCKER_SCRIPT=$(SRC_PATH)/tests/docker/docker.py --engine $(CONTAINER_ENGINE)
+RUNC ?= $(shell $(DOCKER_SCRIPT) probe)
CUR_TIME := $(shell date +%Y-%m-%d-%H.%M.%S.$$$$)
DOCKER_SRC_COPY := $(BUILD_DIR)/docker-src.$(CUR_TIME)
diff --git a/tests/docker/docker.py b/tests/docker/docker.py
index 3b8a26704df..ff68c7bf6f2 100755
--- a/tests/docker/docker.py
+++ b/tests/docker/docker.py
@@ -618,12 +618,7 @@ class ProbeCommand(SubCommand):
def run(self, args, argv):
try:
docker = Docker()
- if docker._command[0] == "docker":
- print("docker")
- elif docker._command[0] == "sudo":
- print("sudo docker")
- elif docker._command[0] == "podman":
- print("podman")
+ print(" ".join(docker._command))
except Exception:
print("no")
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-02 12:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-02 12:34 [PULL 00/10] microblazeel removal, improved docker detection, etc Thomas Huth
2026-03-02 12:34 ` [PULL 01/10] s390x/pci: prevent null pointer dereference during zpci hot unplug Thomas Huth
2026-03-02 12:34 ` [PULL 02/10] tests/functional: Make sure test case .py files are executable Thomas Huth
2026-03-02 12:34 ` [PULL 03/10] tests/functional: Remove the microblazeel test Thomas Huth
2026-03-02 12:34 ` [PULL 04/10] tests/qtest: Remove the microblazeel target from the qtests Thomas Huth
2026-03-02 12:34 ` [PULL 05/10] gitlab-ci: Remove the microblazeel target from the CI jobs Thomas Huth
2026-03-02 12:34 ` [PULL 06/10] Remove the qemu-system-microblazeel target from the build Thomas Huth
2026-03-02 12:34 ` Thomas Huth [this message]
2026-03-02 12:34 ` [PULL 08/10] tests/docker: add support for podman remote access Thomas Huth
2026-03-02 12:34 ` [PULL 09/10] tests/docker: allow display of docker output Thomas Huth
2026-03-02 12:34 ` [PULL 10/10] gitlab: ensure docker output is always displayed in CI Thomas Huth
2026-03-03 9:43 ` [PULL 00/10] microblazeel removal, improved docker detection, etc Peter Maydell
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