>>> Please add a test. tests/qtest/bios-tables-test.c >>> + relevant table dumps. >> >> Here I need to add a test that creates a vfio-pci device and numa >> nodes and link using the acpi-generic-initiator object. One thing >> here is that the -device vfio-pci needs a host=<bdf> argument. I >> probably cannot provide the device bdf from my local setup. So >> I am not sure how can I add this test to tests/qtest/bios-tables-test.c. >> FYI, the following is a sample args we use for the >> acpi-generic-initiator object. >> >> -numa node,nodeid=2 >> -device vfio-pci-nohotplug,bus=pcie.0,addr=04.0,rombar=0,id=dev0 \ >> -object acpi-generic-initiator,id=gi0,pci-dev=dev0,node=2 \ >> >> Moreover based on a quick grep, I don't see any other test that >> have -device vfio-pci argument. >> >> Jonathan, Alex, do you know how we may add tests that is dependent >> on the vfio-pci device? > > There are none. > > This would require a host device always available for passthrough and > there is no simple solution for this problem. Such tests would need to > run in a nested environment under avocado: a pc/virt machine with an > igb device and use the PF and/or VFs to check device assignment in a > nested guests. > > PPC just introduced new tests to check nested guest support on two > different HV implementations. If you have time, please take a look > at tests/avocado/ppc_hv_tests.py for the framework. > > I will try to propose a new test when I am done with the reviews, > not before 9.0 soft freeze though.
Thanks for the information. As part of this patch, I'll leave out this test change then.
