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Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 15:15:39 +0000
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Buildbot for qemu.git/master
From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
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To: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Cc: lmr@redhat.com, gollub@b1-systems.de, Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> wrot=
e:
>
> On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 04:36:11PM +0000, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>> Occassionally a commit that breaks the build gets merged into
>> qemu.git/master. =A0Build testing manually across all host platforms is
>> not feasible for most developers. =A0Remember we cover 32- and 64-bit
>> x86 Linux, Windows, and other host platforms. =A0There are factors like
>> compile time but the main problem is that few have access to all host
>> platforms.
>
> Is there a plan to test that the build minimally functions as well?
> Could be as simple as running:
>
> ./x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -L pc-bios \
> =A0-kernel /boot/vmlinuz -nodefconfig -nographic -nodefaults -no-reboot \
> =A0-m 500 -device virtio-serial -serial stdio -append 'panic=3D1 console=
=3DttyS0'
>
> and just checking that it doesn't hang and does print out some
> expected message near the end ("Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS:
> Unable to mount root fs" might be a good one :-)

I'm not aware of a plan but if someone steps up with tests and
machines that can serve as buildslaves, then the infrastructure can
support it.

I believe KVM-Autotest does that and much more for KVM x86 but have
never run it myself:
http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/KVM-Autotest

Stefan