Thank you guys for getting involved with this issue. >>Yes, certain tests and >> methods only support main_vm, and I'm not surprised unattended install >> is one of them. If this was "fixed" would it be a better solution for >> you? I already thought about this and even did a fix using the "vms" parameter that made it possible. However, after rethinking what would be the best approach from the perspective of design and usability I removed this fix. The main reason for this is that targeting a single virtual machine while not others gives more freedom to everybody using this test. This is how I came to a conclusion that the best option would be not to touch the test itself but rather use the "main_vm" parameter. It is completely sequential approach and we can see the test results for each vm in an independent way.
So to recap, I am not really thinking about installing multiple vms in a single test, but they still need the install test performed on them at some time. And as mentioned in the previous e-mails, I get a few errors from which I could identify the following: 1) Some parameters of the VM are changed after installation forcing the cache to be reset. I don't know what could be changed and this occurs at least when multiple vms are active for each VM: 10/17 10:08:23 DEBUG| virt_vm:0444| VM params in env don't match requested, restarting. Solution: I guess we can live with a few extra restarts of each VM, especially if it is only during installation. 2) The nic of the second VM creates a warning while installing the first one and resetting. 10/17 10:15:20 WARNI|env_proces:0461| Could not verify DHCP lease: 02:00:00:00:00:52 --> 172.16.1.172 10/17 10:15:20 DEBUG| kvm_vm:1806| Destroying VM with PID 4708 10/17 10:15:20 DEBUG| kvm_vm:1832| Trying to kill VM with monitor command 10/17 10:16:20 INFO | aexpect:0786| [qemu output] (Process terminated with status 0) 10/17 10:16:21 DEBUG| kvm_vm:1849| VM is down Solution: The second VM still does not have OS installed on it, therefore a session to shut it down encounters problems. I guess some tweaking of parameters should do the trick. @Lucas: You said you have never thought about installing multiple VMs in a single test until now. What is your usual way of installing them in seperate tests? _______________________________________________ Autotest-kernel mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/autotest-kernel
