Re: [Qemu-devel] make vm-test [was: [PATCH] maintainers: Add myself as a OpenBSD maintainer]

[Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>]

On Mon, 03/19 17:06, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 02/16/2018 11:44 AM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> > On 02/16/2018 02:41 PM, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> > > On 16.02.2018 18:30, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> > > > But before announcing the host OS being supported again, I'd rather see
> > > > reproducible build/tests logs, in a (public - if possible) continuous
> > > > integration system. Else it is hard to notice when it get broken.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > This is already done for FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.
> > 
> > We have the ability to run those, but afaik no CI are using them.
> > 
> > $ make vm-test
> > vm-test: Test QEMU in preconfigured virtual machines
> > 
> >    vm-build-ubuntu.i386            - Build QEMU in ubuntu i386 VM
> >    vm-build-freebsd                - Build QEMU in FreeBSD VM
> >    vm-build-netbsd                 - Build QEMU in NetBSD VM
> >    vm-build-openbsd                - Build QEMU in OpenBSD VM
> > 
> > > 
> > > CC: Fam who can confirm this.
> 
> Thanks for this; today was my first day trying the various vm-build-
> targets.
> 
> Question: is this expected behavior?
> 
> $ make vm-build-ubuntu.i386
>     VM-IMAGE ubuntu.i386
> ...
> Image resized.
> debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
> debconf: (TERM is not set, so the dialog frontend is not usable.)
> debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
> debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline
> debconf: (This frontend requires a controlling tty.)
> debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype
> dpkg-preconfigure: unable to re-open stdin:
> Connection to 127.0.0.1 closed by remote host.
> ...
> Cloning into '/home/eblake/qemu/vm-test-VoVkBv.tmp/data-5ba3c.tar.vroot/ui/keycodemapdb'...
> sudo: unable to resolve host ubuntu-guest
> make[1]: flex: Command not found
> ...
> make[1]: flex: Command not found
> Could not access KVM kernel module: No such file or directory
> qemu-system-i386: failed to initialize KVM: No such file or directory
> qemu-system-i386: Back to tcg accelerator
> 
> I'm wondering if the image initialized incorrectly, and as a result can't do
> as much as it's supposed to do, or runs way slower than it needs to?  The
> command eventually completed with status 0, but failed to find a 32-bit
> compile error in the rdma code, and the output log does not look like it
> actually attempted to compile anything in qemu (unless it did compile it,
> but the logs were not output to stdout/stderr).
> 
> make vm-build-freebsd was a lot faster at completing for me (but shows that
> we still have a lot of clang warnings about address of a packed struct
> member).
> 

Was it a clean repo? Did you try "rm -rf ~/.cache/qemu-vm"? This morning the
command worked for me from a clean env (on RHEL 7, using a QEMU built from
qemu.git), and I didn't see the errors/warnings you pasted. (BTW I don't
understand how sudo has anything to do with the dummy host name.)

Fam