Re: [RFC] virtio-villain: Guest fault injection for VMM robustness

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

On Wed, Jul 08, 2026 at 08:25:19PM +0200, Anatol Belski wrote:
> On Wed, 2026-07-08 at 09:09 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> 
> 
> > Yes, I think it'd be interesting to try to fit them directly into a
> > functional test script. I guess having the virtio-villain repo as a
> > git submodule would probably be the way to go to access the
> > individual
> > tests to build the initramfs.
> 
> A submodule would work. The build is a plain musl-gcc static link
> plus a cpio wrap, so it should integrate without pulling in extra
> dependencies.
> 
> One question on the kernel side. The harness currently uses the
> Cloud Hypervisor prebuilt kernel
> 
> https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/linux/releases/tag/ch-release-v6.16.9-20260508
> 
> which seems fully sufficient for the goals here. Is there a QEMU
> preferred prebuilt kernel for tests/functional/ that I should use
> instead?

We don't have any stock kernel. Tests refer to any kenrel/initrd
image that they require and download it via the "Asset" class
functions which have caching built-in.


With regards,
Daniel
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