From: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paul Durrant <paul@xen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tests/functional: Convert the kvm_xen_guest avocado test
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 11:53:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z2K3pNLAxxilvT4c@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9B5DDDDB-769B-4654-BEF1-D3F853EA05E5@infradead.org>
On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 12:48:01PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On 18 December 2024 12:32:49 CET, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
> >Use the serial console to execute the commands in the guest instead
> >of using ssh since we don't have ssh support in the functional
> >framework yet.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
>
> Hm, but serial is lossy and experience shows that it leads to
> flaky tests if the guest (or host) misses bytes. While SSH would just go slower.
Practically all of our tests are using the serial console for interaction.
QEMU serial port emulation is generally written to stall if the fifo is
full, and not throwaway data.
With regards,
Daniel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-12-18 11:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-12-18 11:32 [PATCH] tests/functional: Convert the kvm_xen_guest avocado test Thomas Huth
2024-12-18 11:48 ` David Woodhouse
2024-12-18 11:53 ` Daniel P. Berrangé [this message]
2024-12-18 12:40 ` Thomas Huth
2024-12-18 13:38 ` Thomas Huth
2024-12-18 14:11 ` David Woodhouse
2024-12-18 16:19 ` Thomas Huth
2024-12-18 17:16 ` Thomas Huth
2024-12-18 19:11 ` David Woodhouse
2024-12-18 21:42 ` David Woodhouse
2024-12-18 22:11 ` David Woodhouse
2024-12-18 15:54 ` Thomas Huth
2024-12-18 22:14 ` David Woodhouse
2024-12-19 8:35 ` Thomas Huth
2024-12-19 8:49 ` David Woodhouse
2024-12-19 12:24 ` Thomas Huth
2024-12-19 12:56 ` David Woodhouse
2024-12-19 18:05 ` Richard Henderson
2024-12-20 12:22 ` David Woodhouse
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