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Re: [Qemu-devel] Buildbot for qemu.git/master
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Stefan Hajnoczi |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] Buildbot for qemu.git/master |
Date: |
Mon, 7 Feb 2011 15:15:39 +0000 |
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> 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. Build testing manually across all host platforms is
>> not feasible for most developers. Remember we cover 32- and 64-bit
>> x86 Linux, Windows, and other host platforms. There 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 \
> -kernel /boot/vmlinuz -nodefconfig -nographic -nodefaults -no-reboot \
> -m 500 -device virtio-serial -serial stdio -append 'panic=1 console=ttyS0'
>
> 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
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Buildbot for qemu.git/master, (continued)
Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Buildbot for qemu.git/master, Luiz Capitulino, 2011/02/07
[Qemu-devel] Re: Buildbot for qemu.git/master, Daniel Gollub, 2011/02/07
Re: [Qemu-devel] Buildbot for qemu.git/master, Richard W.M. Jones, 2011/02/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Buildbot for qemu.git/master,
Stefan Hajnoczi <=