Re: iotests failing on gitlab CI check-system-fedora job

[Peter Maydell]

On Wed, 17 Mar 2021 at 23:26, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 17/03/21 23:23, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > The check-system-fedora job in the gitlab CI seems to have
> > started reliably failing on iotests 040 041 127 256 267:
> >   https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/jobs/1106977551
> >
> > Could somebody have a look at what's happening, please?
> > (This is probably a regression that's got into master because
> > I stopped using "did gitlab CI pass" as a gate because gitlab
> > was running massively too slowly to be usable for that.)
>
> It's caused by adding virtio devices to the m68k target.  Probably it
> can be fixed by moving i386-softmmu to Fedora and m68k-softmmu to Debian.

Why are the iotests not specifying what machine type they run
on if they care about the machine type ?

thanks
-- PMM