Re: [Qemu-devel] Status and RFC of patchew testings on QEMU

[Fam Zheng]

On Tue, 07/18 10:42, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 10:37:30AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > On 18 July 2017 at 10:11, Thomas Huth <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > Could the test be rewritten to provide a proper timeout handling
> > > instead? Tests should clearly fail after a while instead of hanging
> > > forever...
> > > Or maybe we could add some magic that the troublesome tests are not
> > > executed if a certain environment variable is set, so we could skip them
> > > in these automated setups here?
> > 
> > I think it's always going to be possible that some bug in
> > QEMU results in a test hanging -- so it must be down to
> > the test harness to deal with hanging tests. And then
> > once you have that functionality in the test harness it
> > doesn't matter quite so much whether an individual test
> > has its own timeout handling or not.
> 
> If the tests are all inside a docker container, then dealing with a hanging
> test is no more difficult than waiting a suitable amount of time and then
> telling docker to destroy the container.

Yes, the context here is non-x86 or non-Linux which are not as easy to run
docker.

Running tests in a VM would be great, but the harness is missing.

Fam