Re: [PATCH] tests/functional: Convert the kvm_xen_guest avocado test

[Thomas Huth]

On 18/12/2024 12.48, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On 18 December 2024 12:32:49 CET, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Use the serial console to execute the commands in the guest instead
> > of using ssh since we don't have ssh support in the functional
> > framework yet.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
>
> Hm, but serial is lossy and experience shows that it leads to flaky tests if 
> the guest (or host) misses bytes. While SSH would just go slower.

The issue with the serial console should be fixed since:

 https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/cdad03b74f759857d784e074755

We didn't see any more issues with all the other tests since that has been 
merged.

 Thomas