Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Add a CentOS test image to run docker tests

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 04/04/2018 04:51, Fam Zheng wrote:
> Docker testing on patchew has long suffered from 'make check' hangings. The
> cleanness of VM testing is the cure. Now let's add a CentOS 7 image to run the
> tests.  It's purely ad-hoc, but hopefully still easy to understand and use for
> everyone.
> 
> The first patch makes passing source code from host to the container in VM
> working, and is a nice clean up.
> 
> The second patch makes caches work, to speed up repetitive runs like on
> patchew.
> 
> The last patch adds the new image that does the job. Two out of three docker
> tests running on patchew.org are added to the image. I'll wait for Peter to 
> fix
> the 'address@hidden' hanging (oob test) before adding it too.

I think it's a good idea.  The tests are the same as before, only the
environment is more self-contained.

Paolo

> Fam
> 
> Fam Zheng (3):
>   archive-source.sh: Drop submodule code
>   tests: Add an option for snapshot (default: off)
>   tests: Add centos VM testing
> 
>  scripts/archive-source.sh | 47 +++------------------------
>  tests/vm/basevm.py        |  7 +++-
>  tests/vm/centos           | 82 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 92 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100755 tests/vm/centos
>