From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: New Xentest automated testing framework snapshot Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 18:01:04 -0600 Message-ID: <42250240.60303@us.ibm.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Ian Pratt Cc: Paul Larson , xen-devel , David Barrera , Li Ge , Stephanie Glass , ian.pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Ian Pratt wrote: >Folks, >This work is much appreciated -- many thanks. > >It would be great if someone could set this up to start doing nightly >builds, tests and benchmarks, and make the results available. It would >also be useful to do some 'historical' tests too, perhaps running the >kernel on every Sunday night in the unstable tree all the way back to >the 2.0. > >Ian > > In Samba, we have Build Farm that's essentially a cronjob that will do automated building/testing on a machine and then will post (I believe through rsync) the results to a central server where they can be processed. This way, anyone with a machine to spare can participate. I'm sure we could do something like that with Xen if someone was able to provide a central server for the site containing the results. Samba's build farm is located at: http://build.samba.org/ Regards, Anthony Liguori >>-----Original Message----- >>From: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net >>[mailto:xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of >>Paul Larson >>Sent: 01 March 2005 22:03 >>To: xen-devel >>Cc: David Barrera; Li Ge; Stephanie Glass >>Subject: [Xen-devel] New Xentest automated testing framework snapshot >> >>Here's a new snapshot of the automated build and test tool for Xen. We >>are trying to create a tool that will be as simple and lightweight as >>possible, while being configurable enough to work with a variety of >>tests and environments. The purpose of this tool is to make it easier >>to run tests under Xen on nightly tarball snapshots so that >>bugs can be >>caught and fixed quickly. >> >>It's still a little rough around the edges but should be >>functional for >>a lot of people. Right now, I have it running well enough on my test >>machines that I can kick it off and have it automatically >>pull down xen, >>build/boot it, start my VMs and run tests on all of them (and >>on domain >>0). >> >>One major limitation is that initrd doesn't get built, though I'm not >>sure if this is a limitation of xentest, or if it would better be >>handled by make install from xen. >> >>I would appreciate any feedback on how we might make this more useful, >>as we intend to continue working on it and making it available. >> >>-- >>Thanks, >>Paul Larson >>plars@linuxtestproject.org >>http://www.linuxtestproject.org >> >> >> > > >------------------------------------------------------- >SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide >Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. >Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. >http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=click >_______________________________________________ >Xen-devel mailing list >Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel > > > ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click