Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 00/12] tests: Add VM based build tests (for non-x86_64 and/or non-Linux)

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

Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> writes:

> v6: Add license to new file. [Philippe]
>     Change tests/.gitignore. [Philippe]
>
> v5: Generate source tar file with a script.
>     Fix tmpdir, use pwd.
>     Reduce default -j to half cores.
>
> v4: Drop unused imports and parameters. [Cleber]
>     Use --exclude-vcs (still no --exclude-vcs-ignores because it's too new). [Philippe]
>     Use gtar if available. [Philippe, Kamil]
>     /dev/ld1a -> /dev/rld1a for netbsd. [Kamil]
>     Only use '-enable-kvm' if /dev/kvm is there. [Kamil]
>     Grammar fixes of README. [Stefan]
>     Rename image on the server to include version and arch. [Kamil]
>     Just ignore *.tmp. [Philippe]
>
> v3: Drop RFC.
>     Add Stefan's and Kamil's reviewed-bys.
>     Use optparse. [Stefan]
>     Drop the VGA patch. [Paolo, Stefan]
>     Improve exit/exit code/doc. [Stefan]
>     Drop unused line from basevm.py. [Stefan]
>     Drop "--target-list" form Makefile.
>     More intelligent '-j'.
>     Add README. [Stefan]
>
> v2: - Add docstring. [Stefan]
>     - Call self._load_io_lod. [Stefan]
>     - Use "info usernet" and dynamic ssh_port forwarding. [Stefan]
>     - Add image checksum.
>     - Use os.rename() and os.makedirs(). [Stefan]
>     - Fix NetBSD URL. [Kamil]
>
> Build tests in one 32 bit Linux guest and three BSD images are defined in this
> series. This is a more managable way than the manually maintained virtual
> machines in patchew. Also, one big advantage of ephemeral VMs over long running
> guests is the reduced RAM usage of host, which makes it possible to have one
> host test all these BSD variants and probably more.
>
> The BSD guest templates are manually prepared following
>
> https://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/BSD
>
> as it is not easy to automate. (The ideal approach is like the ubuntu.i386
> script, which configures the guest on top of an official released image, fully
> automatically.)
>
> Need for help: "gmake check" in the added OpenBSD image fails with -ENOMEM
> errors, even if I change "-m 2G" to "-m 8G" when starting VM. Ideas? And there
> is a warning from ./configure about OpenBSD going to be unsupported in coming
> releases, is it still the case?

OK I can't boot any of the VMs so I need some more feedback from the
script when things run.

>
> Fam
>
> Fam Zheng (12):
>   gitignore: Ignore vm test images
>   qemu.py: Add "wait()" method
>   scripts: Add archive-source.sh
>   tests: Add vm test lib
>   tests: Add ubuntu.i386 image
>   tests: Add FreeBSD image
>   tests: Add NetBSD image
>   tests: Add OpenBSD image
>   Makefile: Add rules to run vm tests
>   MAINTAINERS: Add tests/vm entry
>   tests: Add README for vm tests
>   docker: Use archive-source.py
>
>  .gitignore                    |   1 +
>  MAINTAINERS                   |   1 +
>  Makefile                      |   2 +
>  configure                     |   2 +-
>  scripts/archive-source.sh     |  31 +++++
>  scripts/qemu.py               |   7 ++
>  tests/.gitignore              |   1 +
>  tests/docker/Makefile.include |  15 +--
>  tests/docker/run              |   8 +-
>  tests/vm/Makefile.include     |  42 +++++++
>  tests/vm/README               |  63 ++++++++++
>  tests/vm/basevm.py            | 276 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tests/vm/freebsd              |  42 +++++++
>  tests/vm/netbsd               |  42 +++++++
>  tests/vm/openbsd              |  43 +++++++
>  tests/vm/ubuntu.i386          |  88 ++++++++++++++
>  16 files changed, 643 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100755 scripts/archive-source.sh
>  create mode 100644 tests/vm/Makefile.include
>  create mode 100644 tests/vm/README
>  create mode 100755 tests/vm/basevm.py
>  create mode 100755 tests/vm/freebsd
>  create mode 100755 tests/vm/netbsd
>  create mode 100755 tests/vm/openbsd
>  create mode 100755 tests/vm/ubuntu.i386


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Alex Bennée