Re: [OSSTEST Nested PATCH v11 6/7] Compose the main recipe of nested test job

[Robert Hu <robert.hu@vmm.sh.intel.com>]

On Thu, 2015-06-11 at 16:19 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Pang, LongtaoX writes ("RE: [OSSTEST Nested PATCH v11 6/7] Compose the main recipe of nested test job"):
> ...
> 
> (Ian C has answered some of your comments.  On the others:)
> 
> > > I think you probably want to run leak-check on the L1.
> > > 
> > I have noticed the logs which printed on screen during job running, the leak-check will
> > be run on L1 at the end of testing.
> > Or, do you mean that I should run leak-check on L1 after the L1 HVM guest finishing installation?
> 
> Maybe I am confused.
> 
> I think that with your patches, leak-check would be run on the L0
> only.
> 
> But leak-check ought to be run on the L1 as well.  The basis would be
> after nested-setup, xen-install and reboot I think (similar to the
> position for the L0 basis).
> 
> leak-check compares the set of objects present at the `leak-check
> check' step with the set of objects present at the `basis' step, and
> the check fails if there are any new objects.  For this purpose,
> objects includes domains, corefiles, etc.
> 
> > > Do you not want to run the steps in test-guest ?  Perhaps it would be
> > > better to add a host ident argument to test-guest{,-migr,-nomigr} ?
> > > 
> > We do not plan to run the steps in test-guest currently.
> 
> Why not ?
Hi Ian J., because nested Xen isn't that matured at present; it is
currently 'tech preview' phase. We now just add some sanity test case to
defend current work fruits. We can add more complicated test cases later
as nested Xen development moves forward.
> 
> Ian.