Re: A new qemu acpi test with bios bits

[Ani Sinha]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 10:44 PM Ani Sinha <ani@anisinha.ca> wrote:
>
> 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?

Never mind. docs/devel/testing.rst talks about QEMUMachine which seems
to be exactly what I want to use for this relatively simple test.

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