Re: virt functional tests and testing improvements
On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 08:55:42AM -0400, Antoni Segura Puimedon wrote:
Hi Everybody,
We are readying the way to run the virt functional tests as a jenkins job. In
order to achieve that, we'd like to be able to reboot one of the hosts holding
the jenkins slave VMs so that the setting "option kvm_intel nested=1" (This
is required because virt functional tests spawn a few VMs). It would also be
necessary to have a vdsm hook for the VM creation that puts the vmx capability
on the guests XML.
I vote in favor of this suggestion since we urgently need to know if and
when vm startup is broken. Thanks for this initiative.
However, we should all remember that nested=1 is not yet of enterprise
quality. If we set it, and then see instability introduced to our host,
we should reset it and walk the less aggressive path of using
faqemu-like hook on the host, running our tested guest in emulation.
A related improvement would be to be able to have some guide for adding one's
hosts to jenkins as slaves for extra cycles and maybe to have some dedicated
slaves for complex testing setups.