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* [kvm-unit-tests PATCH RESEND v3 0/2] Wrap EFL binaries into ISO images
@ 2021-12-07  9:44 Yi Sun
  2021-12-07  9:44 ` [kvm-unit-tests PATCH RESEND v3 1/2] x86: Build ISO images from x86/*.elf Yi Sun
  2021-12-07  9:44 ` [kvm-unit-tests PATCH RESEND v3 2/2] x86: Create ISO images according to unittests.cfg Yi Sun
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From: Yi Sun @ 2021-12-07  9:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: yi.sun, yi.sun, kvm

This patch set make use of tool 'grub-mkrescue' to wrap ELF binaries into bootable ISO images.

Cases in kvm-unit-tests can be run with QEMU. But the problem is that some newer VMMs such as Crosvm/Cloud-hyperviosr does NOT support multiboot protocol with which QEMU loads and executes those testing binaries correctly. This patch set can wrap each kvm-unit-tests EFL binaries into a bootable ISO image aiming to adapt it to more usage scenarios. As we know, all PC BIOSes and vBIOSes know how to boot from a ISO from CD-ROM drive, hence it can extend the KVM-unit-tests a lot.

The patch set provides two approaches to create ISO. One is via "make iso". It wrap each ELF in foler x86 into a ISO without any parameters passed to the test cases.  The other is via script create_iso.sh. The script wraps the ELF according to the configure file unittests.cfg which descripes various parameters for each testing.

Patch History:
V1: Initial version.
V2: Add the second parament to the script create_iso.sh, that could pass environment variables into test cases via the file.
V3: Add some failure handle.


Yi Sun (2):
  x86: Build ISO images from x86/*.elf
  x86: Create ISO images according to unittests.cfg

 lib/grub/grub.cfg   |   7 +++
 x86/Makefile.common |  18 ++++++-
 x86/create_iso.sh   | 112 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 136 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 lib/grub/grub.cfg
 create mode 100755 x86/create_iso.sh

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2.27.0


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