From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pasi =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=E4rkk=E4inen?= Subject: Re: Proposal: Xen Test Days Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 22:50:21 +0300 Message-ID: <20120801195021.GD19851@reaktio.net> References: <50191C3E.4050003@xen.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: George Dunlap Cc: lars.kurth@xen.org, xen-devel@lists.xen.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 03:50:16PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote: > On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Lars Kurth wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > at OSCON I had a couple of discussions regarding Fedora-like Xen Test Days. > > It may be a little bit late for this release putting all the documentation > > together (i.e. a TODO list of what we want to community and distros which > > consume Xen) to test to pull this off for this release cycle. > > > > But I wanted to raise this as possibility and maybe something to build into > > future release cycles. If I look at http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_4.2 there > > is fairly little (or in fact almost nothing) we have in terms of how new > > functionality would be tested. My gut feel is that the biggest benefit of a > > Xen test Day for 4.2 may be in testing XL. There were some improvements last > > Monday, but I am not sure this is enough. > > > > If I look at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days they have spent > > quite a bit of effort on this, and it would probably take one person a week > > or two full-time to pull this together. Also see, > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:Current > > > > I just wanted to put this out there to see whether we should try for this > > release cycle and gather views. It would require a volunteer to step up. If > > the view is that this is not doable for 4.2, this may be a good thing to > > either try for patch releases as well as maybe for Xen 4.3 > > I think for 4.2, the key thing we want to test is the xm -> xl > transition; and the instructions for that are really simple -- > basically, "Do what you normally do using xl instead of xm". :-) > Secondary things we want tested involve just installing it on > different software setups (e.g., distros), and hardware testing. But > I think those will come as a matter of course with the first one. > Xen hypervisor UEFI boot testing would be nice aswell.. Xen 4.2 has the hypervisor EFI patches, but dom0 kernel also needs EFI patches, and that makes testing a bit more difficult.. Upstream Linux pvops dom0 kernel doesn't have EFI support yet, only Suse's xenlinux patches have EFI support afaik.. -- Pasi