Need help to setup an slave for VDSM functional tests

[Eyal Edri]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Zhou Zheng Sheng" <zhshzhou at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> To: "infra" <infra at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 12:44:18 PM
> Subject: Need help to setup an slave for VDSM functional tests
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I got a Jenkins power user account. I want to configure a job to run
> VDSM functional tests on a Fedora 18 slave. The functional tests need
> some prerequisites that can not be done in Jenkins, for example,
> installing dependency packages (git, python-pep8, pyflakes, autoconf,
> gcc...), configuring sudo (Jenkins needs root privilege to
> install/start/stop VDSM), configuring glusterfs. Since the functional
> tests actually install VDSM on the slave's OS, the slave is better to be
> a virtual machine.

i believe the current f18 slaves already have those, if not please open a ticket/email to infra.

> 
> In all, to run VDSM functional tests, we need a VM that is ready to
> build and install VDSM. There are already some slaves running jobs for
> building VDSM and unit tests, the environment is almost the same for
> functional tests. The VM slave needs not be online all the time. There
> is a Jenkins plugin named "libvirt slave", it can start the VM when the
> job is triggered, and shutdown it when it's idle for some time. I do not
> have the privilege to install that plugin. Could you install libvirt
> slave plugin as well?

we currently don't have ability to start/stop vms or launching any non-amazon vms as slaves.
(we're working on adding new vms on ovirt-engine instance, which will give us more flexibility with that).

is shutting down the vm part of the test? 

> 
> I think it will be helpful to run functional tests in VMs in Jenkins.
> Could anyone give me some help to setup the environment? I really
> appreciate.

i think you can just use the 'fedora18' label for your new job and run it.
if you'll have issue, communicate them here on infra list.

> 
> --
> Thanks and best regards!
> 
> Zhou Zheng Sheng / 周征晟
> E-mail: zhshzhou at linux.vnet.ibm.com
> Telephone: 86-10-82454397
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