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Re: [Qemu-devel] Status and RFC of patchew testings on QEMU
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Daniel P. Berrange |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] Status and RFC of patchew testings on QEMU |
Date: |
Tue, 18 Jul 2017 10:42:47 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.8.3 (2017-05-23) |
On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 10:37:30AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 18 July 2017 at 10:11, Thomas Huth <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Could the test be rewritten to provide a proper timeout handling
> > instead? Tests should clearly fail after a while instead of hanging
> > forever...
> > Or maybe we could add some magic that the troublesome tests are not
> > executed if a certain environment variable is set, so we could skip them
> > in these automated setups here?
>
> I think it's always going to be possible that some bug in
> QEMU results in a test hanging -- so it must be down to
> the test harness to deal with hanging tests. And then
> once you have that functionality in the test harness it
> doesn't matter quite so much whether an individual test
> has its own timeout handling or not.
If the tests are all inside a docker container, then dealing with a hanging
test is no more difficult than waiting a suitable amount of time and then
telling docker to destroy the container.
Regards,
Daniel
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] Status and RFC of patchew testings on QEMU, (continued)
Re: [Qemu-devel] Status and RFC of patchew testings on QEMU, Daniel P. Berrange, 2017/07/17
Re: [Qemu-devel] Status and RFC of patchew testings on QEMU, Kevin Wolf, 2017/07/17
Re: [Qemu-devel] Status and RFC of patchew testings on QEMU, Fam Zheng, 2017/07/17