On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 22:23:35 +0100
Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com> wrote:
> When running the test unprivileged, we get:
>
> $ avocado --show=app,machine run tests/acceptance/virtio_check_params.py
> JOB ID : b631d5d692e49b791b211d33b80730315d561d45
> JOB LOG : job-results/job-2020-01-22T17.56-b631d5d/job.log
> (1/1)
> tests/acceptance/virtio_check_params.py:VirtioMaxSegSettingsCheck.test_machine_types:
> machine: {'name': 'pc-i440fx-2.12', 'seg_max_adjust': 'false', 'device':
> 'virtio-scsi-pci'}
> machine: {'name': 'pc-i440fx-2.0', 'seg_max_adjust': 'false', 'device':
> 'virtio-scsi-pci'}
> machine: {'name': 'xenpv', 'seg_max_adjust': 'false', 'device':
> 'virtio-scsi-pci'}
> FAIL: machine type xenpv: <class 'qemu.qmp.QMPConnectError'> (0.40 s)
>
> Looking at the job.log file we find:
>
> xencall: error: Could not obtain handle on privileged command interface: No
> such file or directory
> xen be core: xen be core: can't open xen interface
>
> Do not run this test on Xen machines if not superuser.
>
> Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <coh...@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com>
> ---
> tests/acceptance/virtio_check_params.py | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
I still think changing the title to "Test Xen only as superuser" would
be an improvement.
