Re: A new qemu acpi test with bios bits

[Ani Sinha]

oops, Phil's redhat email bounced!

On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 10:41 PM Ani Sinha <ani@anisinha.ca> wrote:
>
> Hi :
> I am trying to write a new ACPI/smbios test framework that uses bios
> bits (https://biosbits.org/ ).
> This test will effectively:
> (a) use a pre-built bits software zip file kept somewhere (where to
> keep is TBD).
> (b) unzip it.
> (c) add a python based acpi and smbios test script to the unzipped
> bits directory.
> (d) make an iso out of the directory.
> (e) spawn a qemu instance with the iso. The iso is built such that it
> runs the acpi/smbios tests in batch mode. After running the test, the
> spawned instance is killed automatically (vm shutdown).
> (f) Collect the logs the vm has sent out.
> (g) look for test failures.
>
> My question is, what framework would be best to achieve the above? I
> looked around and it seems closest to the avocado based integration
> tests. I do not think it is qtest and qtest backend is not required
> here.
>
> Suggestions welcome.
> Thanks
> ani