Bumping avocado to version 101 has two issues. First, there are problems where Avocado is not logging of command lines or terminal output, and not collecting Python logs outside the avocado namespace.
Second, the recent changes to Python handling mean that there is a single virtual environment for all the build, instead of a separate one for testing. Requiring a too-new version of avocado causes conflicts with any avocado plugins installed on the host: $ make check-venv make[1]: Entering directory '/home/berrange/src/virt/qemu/build' GIT ui/keycodemapdb tests/fp/berkeley-testfloat-3 tests/fp/berkeley-softfloat-3 dtc VENVPIP install -e /home/berrange/src/virt/qemu/python/ VENVPIP install -r /home/berrange/src/virt/qemu/tests/requirements.txt ERROR: pip's dependency resolver does not currently take into account all the packages that are installed. This behaviour is the source of the following dependency conflicts. avocado-framework-plugin-varianter-yaml-to-mux 98.0 requires avocado-framework==98.0, but you have avocado-framework 101.0 which is incompatible. avocado-framework-plugin-result-html 98.0 requires avocado-framework==98.0, but you have avocado-framework 101.0 which is incompatible. make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/berrange/src/virt/qemu/build' To avoid this issue, tests/requirements.txt should use a ">=" constraint and the version of Avocado should be limited to what distros provide in the system packages. However, this requires more work, so for now reintroduce the avocado-specific virtual environment instead of using pyvenv/. Paolo Supersedes: <20230605075823.48871-1-pbonz...@redhat.com> Paolo Bonzini (2): Revert "tests/requirements.txt: bump up avocado-framework version to 101.0" tests: Use separate virtual environment for avocado .gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml | 6 ++-- docs/devel/acpi-bits.rst | 6 ++-- docs/devel/testing.rst | 14 ++++---- .../org.centos/stream/8/x86_64/test-avocado | 4 +-- scripts/device-crash-test | 2 +- tests/Makefile.include | 32 +++++++++---------- tests/requirements.txt | 9 ++---- tests/vm/Makefile.include | 2 +- 8 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-) -- 2.40.1