Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/4] tests: Introducing docker tests

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>]

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On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 10:36:00PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
> This series adds a new "docker" make target family to run tests in created
> docker containers.
> 
> To begin with, this can be a place to store standard env/command combinations to
> build and test QEMU.
> 
> Secondly, CI usually provides "docker" capability (such as travis [1]), where
> we define standard/repeatable test environments, and run tests in them.
> However, what tests to cover is better maintained in-tree, in order to keep in
> sync with the code development.
> 
> Lastly, this makes it very simple for developers to replicate such tests
> themselves.
> 
> [1]: https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/docker/
> 
> 
> Fam Zheng (4):
>   tests: Introduce Docker based tests
>   tests: Add clang docker test
>   tests: Add mingw 32/64 cross compiling
>   tests: Add travis container test case

Nice, having standard build/test environments will make it easier to
reproduce issues.

I sent several pull requests to Peter Maydell last year that ended up
failing in his build environments.  Although some of those issues were
non-Linux and therefore not captured by your Docker environments,
capturing common Linux environments is a step forward.

Stefan

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