Re: [KVM_AUTOTEST] unattended installs take 2

[David Huff <dhuff@redhat.com>]

Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote:
> I've been trough the changes, thank you for your work David:
> Comments/questions:
> 
>  * Any particular reason why you guys wrote the PXE boot setup as a
> shell script instead of a python module (that could be also used as a
> stand alone program)? 

We decided to use environmental scripts to set up any host specific 
prerequisite priour to execution any tests.  This way there would be a 
standard/preferred way for tests to set up a specific environment on the 
host.

I am including a snippet form a previous email explaining why we went 
down this path...

Michael Goldish wrote:
 > The solution I had in mind was to add pre/post-processor parameters 
'pre_command' and 'post_command' that represent shell commands to be 
executed before/after the test. A typical shell command would be one 
that runs an environment specific script that sets up mount points or 
whatever is needed for the test. This parameter would be provided for 
each test (in the config file) so one can 'variant' on it, to make 
different variants of the test (e.g. 'dbench' with local storage, and 
then with NFS storage, ...). There can also be pre/post-processing 
scripts for the entire job, that run before the first test and after the 
last one.
 > If you use a setup_<testname> function you require the user to change 
kvm-autotest code in order to perform environment specific setup (and 
you also limit the user to python). I personally prefer to leave all 
environment specific stuff in external scripts outside the code, but I 
may be wrong.


comments.....

-D