Re: Problem running functional tests from China

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

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 01:48:25PM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 2/24/21 1:08 PM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 01:01:40PM +0100, Michal Suchánek wrote:
> >> On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 12:37:53PM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> >>> On 2/24/21 12:06 PM, Michal Suchánek wrote:
> >>>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 10:29:15AM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> >>>>> Just to inform the files hosted on github don't work when
> >>>>> testing from China:
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> raw.githubusercontent.com resolves to 127.0.0.1
> >>>
> >>> Actually not even localhost but 0.0.0.0 :)
> >>>
> >>>> And from where does this come from?
> >>>>
> >>>> Your local system, your ISP, ... ?
> >>>
> >>> Probably the ISP:
> >>>
> >> ...
> >>>
> >>> I raised that problem not to find a way to bypass an ISP
> >>> firewall, but to see if there is a way to use another
> >>> storage for test artifacts so all the community can run
> >>> the tests.
> >>
> >> I don't think protecting from random network malfunction is something
> >> the qemu project can do.
> >>
> >> That said, downloading the test data during test run does indeed look
> >> fragile.
> >>
> >> We have the concept of git submodules which is used in qemu extensively
> >> so the test data could possibly be included directly in the git tree.
> >>
> >> The obvious downside is that the current and past test binaries will take
> >> up disk space for all users that check out the repository, even those
> >> that don't run the tests.
> > 
> > We explicitly do not want to be distributing / including the
> > images ourselves, as that makes the QEMU project responsible for
> > license compliance and thus provision of full & corresponding source.
> 
> I am not asking that QEMU redistribute these files, I'm asking to the
> community if someone know an alternative to store files so we can run
> QEMU tests in Chinese cloud farms.
> 
> Back to your comment, should we remove these tests?

No, I don't think that we should do that.

If someone has broken ISP and they need to run all tests, then they'll
need to use a VPN.

Regardless of that though, we should make sure that tests automatically
mark themselves as "skipped" if any downloading of assets fails. ie a
download failure shouldn't cause tests to report failure.

Regards,
Daniel
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