Testing MoM

[Adam Litke]

Another thing we want to do is expand the unit tests.  A lot of functionality
can be independently verified through these types of tests and it won't even
require virtualization.  I am working to expand the test cases and we'll make
sure that the existing Jenkins job runs those automatically.

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 06:55:03AM -0500, Doron Fediuck wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> since mom is now required by vdsm, we'd like to have Jenkins running a few tests
> of vdsm+mom to make sure we have no regressions, etc.
> 
> The thing with mom is, that we need a real host to see memory sharing (KSM)
> kicks in correctly, and if the host starts swapping mom tunes the VMs memory balloon
> to fix it.
> 
> So basically the question is, if we have a real jenkins slave, which we can use
> as a hypervisor for mom tests. Obviously as a slave it may run other tests while
> vdsm+mom tests are not running.
> 
> I thought about nested kvm, but IIUC advanced features such as memory balloon
> may have issues there.
> 
> Appreciate your feedback on this.
> Doron
> 

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