Re: [PULL 3/6] Acceptance test: add "boot_linux" tests

[Peter Maydell]

On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 at 00:19, Cleber Rosa <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> This acceptance test, validates that a full blown Linux guest can
> successfully boot in QEMU.  In this specific case, the guest chosen is
> Fedora version 31.
>
>  * x86_64, pc-i440fx and pc-q35 machine types, with TCG and KVM as
>    accelerators
>
>  * aarch64 and virt machine type, with TCG and KVM as accelerators
>
>  * ppc64 and pseries machine type with TCG as accelerator
>
>  * s390x and s390-ccw-virtio machine type with TCG as accelerator

I have noticed that these seem to slow down 'make check-acceptance'
a lot. At least for arm, the other tests run in check-acceptance take
perhaps 10 or 20 seconds a test. The
"tests/acceptance/boot_linux.py:BootLinuxAarch64.test_virt_tcg"
test takes about 240 seconds. Is it possible to make it faster ?

thanks
-- PMM