[Qemu-devel] Re: Buildbot for qemu.git/master

[Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com>]

On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 14:36 +0000, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> wrote:
> >
> > On 05.02.2011, at 21:32, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> >
> >> Here is the buildbot.  It currently has a debian-x86_64 slave building
> >> qemu.git/master every 24 hours:
> >> http://buildbot.vmsplice.net/
> >
> > This is great - thank you! I'll try to get some ppc and s390x VMs set up to run this. Do you have any plans to also integrate actual testing of the compiled code?
> 
> Cool :).  Yes testing can be added after build.  Are there specific
> automated tests you're thinking of?
> 
> I plan to add qemu-iotests.
> 
> Perhaps the kvm-autotest folks want to contribute a buildslave?  I
> have CCed Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues.

I am not too familiar with buildbot myself, so I went to the buildbot
page and read some of the documentation. KVM autotest has its own kvm
build code, and we do run jobs that build qemu.git and run some sanity
checking on it (ie, install some guest OSs and boot the vms, as well as
other simple tests).

If I understood correctly, a build slave is a machine where the
compilation happens and then the build master can report appropriately
upon failure/pass. The way the kvm autotest jobs are setup nowadays
provides just that, an environment where the latest qemu-kvm.git and
qemu.git are built on a timely basis (every 48 hours) and then the
actual testing of the compiled code happens.

Of course, maybe there's a way to trigger kvm autotest jobs upon
successful buildbot builds, and if that is possible, I'd be happy to
help setting up a test environment that'd accomplish public automated
testing of qemu.git. Just let me know how I can do it.

Cheers!

Lucas