Re: [kvm-unit-test PATCH 3/5] travis.yml: Test with KVM instead of TCG (on x86)

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> writes:

> Travis nowadays supports KVM in their CI pipelines, so we can finally
> run the kvm-unit-tests with KVM instead of TCG here. Unfortunately, there
> are some quirks: First, the QEMU binary has to be running as root, otherwise
> you get an "permission denied" error here - even if you fix up the access
> permissions to /dev/kvm first.

Could it be another resource it's trying to access?

> Second, not all x86 tests are working in
> this environment, so we still have to manually select the test set here
> (but the amount of tests is definitely higher now than what we were able
> to run with TCG before).
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> ---
>  .travis.yml | 18 +++++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
> index 3f5b5ee..f91118c 100644
> --- a/.travis.yml
> +++ b/.travis.yml
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -sudo: false
> +sudo: true
>  dist: bionic
>  language: c
>  cache: ccache
> @@ -13,16 +13,21 @@ matrix:
>        env:
>        - CONFIG=""
>        - BUILD_DIR="."
> -      - TESTS="vmexit_cpuid vmexit_mov_from_cr8 vmexit_mov_to_cr8 vmexit_ipi
> -             vmexit_ple_round_robin vmexit_tscdeadline vmexit_tscdeadline_immed"
> +      - TESTS="access asyncpf debug emulator ept hypercall hyperv_stimer
> +               hyperv_synic idt_test intel_iommu ioapic ioapic-split
> +               kvmclock_test msr pcid rdpru realmode rmap_chain s3 umip"
> +      - ACCEL="kvm"
>
>      - addons:
>          apt_packages: gcc qemu-system-x86
>        env:
>        - CONFIG=""
>        - BUILD_DIR="x86-builddir"
> -      - TESTS="ioapic-split ioapic smptest smptest3 eventinj msr port80 syscall
> -             tsc rmap_chain umip intel_iommu vmexit_inl_pmtimer vmexit_ipi_halt"
> +      - TESTS="smptest smptest3 tsc tsc_adjust xsave vmexit_cpuid vmexit_vmcall
> +               sieve vmexit_inl_pmtimer vmexit_ipi_halt vmexit_mov_from_cr8
> +               vmexit_mov_to_cr8 vmexit_ple_round_robin vmexit_tscdeadline
> +               vmexit_tscdeadline_immed  vmx_apic_passthrough_thread syscall"
> +      - ACCEL="kvm"
>
>      - addons:
>          apt_packages: gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf qemu-system-arm
> @@ -85,6 +90,9 @@ matrix:
>        - ACCEL="tcg,firmware=s390x/run"
>
>  before_script:
> +  - if [ "$ACCEL" = "kvm" ]; then
> +      sudo chmod u+s /usr/bin/qemu-system-* ;
> +    fi
>    - mkdir -p $BUILD_DIR && cd $BUILD_DIR
>    - if [ -e ./configure ]; then ./configure $CONFIG ; fi
>    - if [ -e ../configure ]; then ../configure $CONFIG ; fi


--
Alex Bennée