On 08/07/2022 17.34, John Snow wrote:
Note: patches 10-12 are included for testing simplicity, they shouldn't
be merged. They will be included in a forthcoming block PR.
V4:
- Addressed concern by Marc-Andre in patch 01.
- Squashed Ubuntu patches (rth)
This patch series attempts to improve the reliability of several of the
VM test targets. In particular, both CentOS 8 tests are non-functional
because CentOS 8 was EOL at the beginning of this calendar year, with
repositories and mirrors going offline.
I also remove the ubuntu.i386 test because we no longer support Ubuntu
18.04 nor do we have explicit need of an i386 build test.
After this series, I am able to successfully run every VM target on an
x86_64 host, except:
- ubuntu.aarch64: Hangs often during testing, see below.
- centos.aarch64: Hangs often during testing, see below.
- haiku.x86_64: Build failures not addressed by this series, see
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2022-06/msg02103.html
The unit tests that I see fail most often under aarch64 are:
- virtio-net-failover: Seems to like to hang on openbsd
- migration-test: Tends to hang under aarch64 tcg
Future work (next version? next series?);
- Try to get centos.aarch64 working reliably under TCG
- Upgrade ubuntu.aarch64 to 20.04 after fixing centos.aarch64
- Fix the Haiku build test, if possible.
- Ensure I can reliably run and pass "make vm-build-all".
(Remove VMs from this recipe if necessary.)
Not sure whether it's related to your patches, but when testing these I just
got an error while running 'vm-build-openbsd' :
VM-BUILD openbsd
fatal: not a valid object name:
failed to archive qemu
Failed to prepare guest environment
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/thuth/devel/qemu/tests/vm/basevm.py", line 641, in main
vm.add_source_dir(args.build_qemu)
File "/home/thuth/devel/qemu/tests/vm/basevm.py", line 277, in add_source_dir
stdout=self._stdout, stderr=self._stderr)
File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 311, in check_call
raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['./scripts/archive-source.sh',
'/home/thuth/tmp/qemu-build/vm-test-rm_z92hq.tmp/data-44e42.tar']' returned
non-zero exit status 1.
The error did not occur again when running the command again, though.
Thomas
