On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 09:05:49AM +0100, Lukáš Doktor wrote: > Dne 30. 11. 20 v 14:25 Stefan Hajnoczi napsal(a): > > On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 09:10:14AM +0100, Lukáš Doktor wrote: > > What is the minimal environment needed for bare metal hosts? > > > > Not sure what you mean by that. For provisioning I have a beaker plugin, > other plugins can be added if needed. Even without beaker one can also > provide an installed machine and skip the provisioning step. Runperf would > then only apply the profiles (including fetching the VM images from public > sources) and run the tests on them. Note that for certain profiles might need > to reboot the machine and in such case the tested machine can not be the one > running run-perf, other profiles can use the current machine but it's still > not a very good idea as the additional overhead might spoil the results. > > Note that for a very simple issue which do not require a special setup I am > usually just running a custom VM on my laptop and use a Localhost profile on > that VM, which basically results in testing that custom-setup VM's > performance. It's dirty but very fast for the first-level check.
I was thinking about reprovisioning the machine to ensure each run starts from the same clean state. This requires reprovisioning. Stefan
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