Re: [PATCH] tests/avocado: Remove the boot_linux.py and replay_linux.py tests

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> writes:

> These tests are based on the cloudinit functions from Avocado.
> The cloudinit is very, very slow compared to our other tests,
> so most of these Avocado tests have either been disabled by default
> with a decorator, or have been marked to only run with KVM.

I have no objection to dropping the boot_linux tests. However the
replay_linux tests could do with porting to use new images (the tuxrun
ones?) so we have coverage. Otherwise we only do a simple kernel boot
under replay and that covers a lot less.

Also don't forget to update MAINTAINERS.

>
> We won't include this sluggish cloudinit stuff in the functional
> framework, and we've already got plenty of other tests there that
> check pretty much the same things, so let's simply get rid of these
> old tests now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
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Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro