Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/6] Avocado: start multi-arch tests, add a Travis job

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

Cleber Rosa <crosa@redhat.com> writes:

> On 06/28/2018 11:46 AM, Alex Bennée wrote:
>>
>> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Another neanderthal approach to add multi-arch acceptance tests using
>>> Avocado.
>>>
>>> Since Cleber Rosa work got merged [0], I can restart my previous attempt [1]
>>> at using Avocado in QEMU.
>>> Cleber Rosa rewrote my previous v1 [1], in good python, now this v2 pushes
>>> a bit further:
>>> - we can now run other archs
>>> - Avocado is integrated into Travis CI
>>>
>>> I'm not sure Travis is the best CI available for those tests, but it runs
>>> quite fast:
>>>
>>>       ...
>>>       LINK    x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64
>>>     JOB ID     : a3a56af3c02d193e862ce660aae1d9c72926dcb6
>>>     JOB LOG    : /home/travis/avocado/job-results/job-2018-06-21T23.49-a3a56af/job.log
>>>      (1/7) tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsoleX86_64.test:  PASS (3.89 s)
>>>      (2/7) tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsoleMips.test:  PASS (1.83 s)
>>>      (3/7) tests/acceptance/version.py:Version.test_qmp_human_info_version:  PASS (0.05 s)
>>>      (4/7) tests/acceptance/vnc.py:Vnc.test_no_vnc:  PASS (0.04 s)
>>>      (5/7) tests/acceptance/vnc.py:Vnc.test_no_vnc_change_password:  PASS (0.04 s)
>>>      (6/7) tests/acceptance/vnc.py:Vnc.test_vnc_change_password_requires_a_password:  PASS (0.05 s)
>>>      (7/7) tests/acceptance/vnc.py:Vnc.test_vnc_change_password:  PASS (0.05 s)
>>>     RESULTS    : PASS 7 | ERROR 0 | FAIL 0 | SKIP 0 | WARN 0 | INTERRUPT 0 | CANCEL 0
>>>     JOB TIME   : 6.21 s
>>
>> Hmm however if I do:
>>
>>    pip install --user avocado-framework
>>    avocado run tests/acceptance
>>
>> I get:
>>
>>    Failed to load plugin from module "avocado_vt.plugins.vt_list": ImportError('No module named netaddr',)
>>    Failed to load plugin from module "avocado_vt.plugins.vt": ImportError('No module named netaddr',)
>>    Failed to load plugin from module "avocado_vt.plugins.vt_bootstrap": OSError(13, 'Permission denied')
>
> Alex,
>
> These are errors related to your installation of Avocado-*VT*[1].
>
>>    Error running method "run" of plugin "virt": 'Namespace' object has no attribute 'default_avocado_params'
>>    Avocado crashed unexpectedly: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/libvirt/images/avocado_sg6NRi'
>>    You can find details in /var/tmp/avocado-traceback-2018-06-28_16:44:25-DGb1CG.log
>>
>
> And these from Avocado-*Virt*[2].  Neither of those are used in the
> tests under "tests/acceptance".
>
>> Which I seem to remember from last time I looked into this. I think
>> avocado makes a bunch of assumptions about the filesystem and OS layout
>> which is hard to gloss over for something you should be able to run
>> straight out of the source tree.
>>
>>
>
> These Avocado-*VT* issues deserve a better look indeed.  Would you
> please describe (if not here, under a GH issue) your environment?

Ahh probably from last time I tried to get things up and running. I
rm -rf ~/.local and things seem to be working well now.

However I was under the impression that VT or virt was needed for this
testing. Or is this an old assumption?

>
> Thanks,
> - Cleber.
>
> [1] - https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado-vt
> [2] - https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado-virt
>
>>>
>>>     Done. Your build exited with 0.
>>>
>>>     Job ran for 5 min 34 sec
>>>
>>> I couldn't add the Alpha tests because all the vmlinux kernels I found
>>> online are gzipped, so I'm waiting some upstream Avocado merges before.
>>>
>>> Cleber: I hope you can help me pythonizing this series :p
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Phil.
>>>
>>> [0]: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-06/msg04531.html
>>> [1]: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-04/msg03076.html
>>>
>>> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé (6):
>>>   avocado: Add a Test.arch property
>>>   tests/acceptance: Rename the x86-64 specific BootLinuxConsole test
>>>   tests/acceptance: Improve the Avocado tags
>>>   tests/acceptance: Add a BootLinuxConsoleMips test
>>>   tests/acceptance: Add a kludge to not use the default console
>>>   travis: Add Avocado tests
>>>
>>>  .travis.yml                               |  8 +++++
>>>  scripts/qemu.py                           |  6 ++--
>>>  tests/acceptance/avocado_qemu/__init__.py | 17 ++++++---
>>>  tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py    | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++--
>>>  4 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>>
>>
>> --
>> Alex Bennée
>>


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Alex Bennée