kvm-unit-test failed to complete

Shih-Wei Li
2015-07-29T18:18:25Z

Hi all,

This is Shih-Wei, I'm Christoffer's colleague at Columbia University.
We have experienced some problems in running kvm-unit-tests in our
environment.
Here's what we did:
./configure
make
./run_test.sh

run_test.sh halted in some specific test items and couldn't finish the
run. I managed to get it finish running after removing the following
items:
x86/apic.c:
-> removed:
test_sti_nmi();
test_multiple_nmi();

x86/unittest.cfg:
-> removed:
smptest, smptest3, vmexit_ipi, vmexit_ipi_halt, s3, kvmclock_test

We are using the x86_64 profile (cpu: Intel Xeon E5-2450 8 cores) in
CloudLab. We used Linux-4.0-rc4 as our host kernel and the upstream
kvm-unit-test.

It would be so much appreciated if someone could give us some hints on
how to fix the problems (i.e. possible tweak on the unit-test code,
configuration of our hardware, host kernel setup, etc...).

Thanks!

Shih-Wei