From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dor Laor Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-autotest Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:39:12 +0300 Message-ID: <487C5420.7030305@qumranet.com> References: <48709B6D.6030300@qumranet.com> <20080709154357.GA6217@dmt.cnet> <4875FC00.2090205@qumranet.com> <20080712153132.GR4188@us.ibm.com> <487BFBCF.7090307@qumranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Ryan Harper , Marcelo Tosatti , kvm@vger.kernel.org, Dror Russo To: Uri Lublin Return-path: Received: from il.qumranet.com ([212.179.150.194]:54643 "EHLO il.qumranet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751470AbYGOHkr (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:40:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <487BFBCF.7090307@qumranet.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: >> >> It's definitely worth looking at the autotest server code/samples. >> There exists code in-tree already to build an deploy kvm via autotest >> server mode which a single machine can drive the building, installing, >> creation of guests on N number of clients, directing each guest >> image to run various autotest client tests, collecting all of the >> results. >> >> See autotest/server/samples/*kvm* >> >> A proper server setup is a little involved[1] but much more streamlined >> these days. >> > > Let's think of a guest-installation test. Would you implement it on > the server or on the client ? > What do you plan for non-linux guests ? > > We'll try this little exercise of writing a kvm-test on the server > side and on the client side and compare complexity. > > Thanks, > Uri. IMHO we need a mixture: - kvm/environment setup autoserve tests/deploy - Internal guest tests Implemented as client test, executed from the server. Composed of benchmarks, standard functionality, applications, unit tests, etc. - guest installation, guest boot client test that execute on the kvm host Regards, Dor