Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/9] tests: Add VM based build tests (for non-x86_64 and/or non-Linux)

[Kamil Rytarowski]

On 16.08.2017 09:20, Fam Zheng wrote:
> Build tests in one 32 bit Linux guest and three BSD images are defined in this
> series. This is a more managable way than the manually maintained virtual
> machines in patchew. Also, one big advantage of ephemeral VMs over long 
> running
> guests is the reduced RAM usage of host, which makes it possible to have one
> host test all these BSD variants and probably more.
> 

Thank you for your work on this!

> The BSD guest templates are manually prepared following
> 
> https://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/BSD
> 
> as it is not easy to automate. (The ideal approach is like the ubuntu.i386
> script, which configures the guest on top of an official released image, fully
> automatically.)
> 

For the reference, inside the NetBSD infrastructure we use homegrown Anita:

http://pkgsrc.se/misc/py-anita

> Need for help: "gmake check" in the added OpenBSD image fails with -ENOMEM
> errors, even if I change "-m 2G" to "-m 8G" when starting VM. Ideas? And there
> is a warning from ./configure about OpenBSD going to be unsupported in coming
> releases, is it still the case?
> 

I'm not sure about their defaults. Please check ulimit and perhaps
/etc/login.conf.

> Fam
> 
> Fam Zheng (9):
>   gitignore: Ignore vm test images
>   qemu.py: Add variable vga type
>   qemu.py: Add "wait()" method
>   tests: Add vm test lib
>   tests: Add ubuntu.i386 image
>   tests: Add FreeBSD image
>   tests: Add NetBSD image
>   tests: Add OpenBSD image
>   Makefile: Add rules to run vm tests
> 
>  .gitignore                |   2 +
>  Makefile                  |   2 +
>  configure                 |   2 +-
>  scripts/qemu.py           |   8 +-
>  tests/vm/Makefile.include |  41 ++++++++
>  tests/vm/basevm.py        | 246 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tests/vm/freebsd          |  44 +++++++++
>  tests/vm/netbsd           |  44 +++++++++
>  tests/vm/openbsd          |  45 +++++++++
>  tests/vm/ubuntu.i386      |  88 +++++++++++++++++
>  10 files changed, 520 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 tests/vm/Makefile.include
>  create mode 100755 tests/vm/basevm.py
>  create mode 100755 tests/vm/freebsd
>  create mode 100755 tests/vm/netbsd
>  create mode 100755 tests/vm/openbsd
>  create mode 100755 tests/vm/ubuntu.i386
>

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