Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 09/20] Boot Linux Console Test: update the x86_64 kernel

[Cleber Rosa]

On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 11:41:44AM +0100, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 19:57:42 -0500
> Cleber Rosa <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > To the stock Fedora 29 kernel, from the Fedora 28.  New tests will be
> > added using the 29 kernel, so for consistency, let's also update it
> > here.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Cleber Rosa <address@hidden>
> > Reviewed-by: Caio Carrara <address@hidden>
> > ---
> >  tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py 
> > b/tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py
> > index 89df7f6e4f..35b31162d4 100644
> > --- a/tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py
> > +++ b/tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py
> > @@ -28,9 +28,9 @@ class BootLinuxConsole(Test):
> >          :avocado: tags=arch:x86_64
> >          :avocado: tags=machine:pc
> >          """
> > -        kernel_url = ('https://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/28/'
> > +        kernel_url = ('https://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/29/'
> >                        'Everything/x86_64/os/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz')
> > -        kernel_hash = '238e083e114c48200f80d889f7e32eeb2793e02a'
> > +        kernel_hash = '23bebd2680757891cf7adedb033532163a792495'
> >          kernel_path = self.fetch_asset(kernel_url, asset_hash=kernel_hash)
> >  
> >          self.vm.set_machine('pc')
> 
> This looks reasonable; but an obvious follow-up question is how we
> handle updates to new distro levels in general.
> 
> I don't think we'll need to run acceptance tests on old qemus, though.

No, I don't think we have to bother with that.  Backport(er)s would be
expected to handle this (if they ever come to existence).

You do have a point about consistenly updating those images, though.
I won't pretend to have an answer for that just yet... but it's
possible that these "kernel_urls" can be turned into parameters
that will eventually be expand based on the user's selected distro
and version (similar to the Avocado vmimage library[1]).

- Cleber.

[1] 
https://avocado-framework.readthedocs.io/en/69.0/api/utils/avocado.utils.html#avocado.utils.vmimage.get