On 12/24/2010 09:45 PM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote: > Hi folks, > > I am here planning our activities for the next year, and our big task > for the 1st quarter of the year is the KVM autotest refactor, to > accomodate other hypervisor's testing. > > Eduardo sent a patchset creating a KVM package inside the kvm test > directory. After some discussion with Michael, we think it is better to > create the package, but on its more long-term location, > autotest_lib.client.bin. So, my proposition is: > > Libraries that can be used by all client side tests > > KVM configuration: The kvm config class can be moved to > autotest_lib.client.bin.test_config, with a new class name > ConfigCartesian. > > from autotest_lib.client.bin import test_config > > KVM subprocess: That can be moved to a new > autotest_lib.client.bin.subprocess module. I would like to move all > autotest APIs to control subprocess in there, such as the current > utils.run, utils.system and friends. > > from autotest_lib.client.bin import subprocess > > Libraries that can be used by virtualization testing in general > > We can create a package autotest_lib.client.bin.virt, with the following > libraries: > > KVM monitor: > > from autotest_lib.client.bin.virt import monitor > > KVM environment class: > > from autotest_lib.client.bin.virt import env > > KVM postprocessing module: > > from autotest_lib.client.bin.virt import env_processing > > KVM scheduler: > > from autotest_lib.client.bin.virt import scheduler > > KVM utils: > > from autotest_lib.client.bin.virt import utils > > KVM test utils: > > from autotest_lib.client.bin.virt import test_utils > > KVM vm class: > > from autotest_lib.client.bin.virt import vm > > KVM rss file transfer: > > from autotest_lib.client.bin.virt import rss_client > > I am a bit reluctant to write patches before I have some level of > feedback on it, so please let me know what you think. > > Cheers, > > Lucas > > _______________________________________________ > Autotest mailing list > [email protected] > http://test.kernel.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/autotest >
Great news. I feel so excited to hear about this. Currently xen-autotest and libguestfs-autotest, though not pushed to public, are mostly code duplications of the kvm-autotest. The differences are merely test cases. We only base on a certain version of kvm-autotest and does not benefit any from the continuously improving kvm-autotest code. When this code refactoring is done we can all move to use the global library, then we can automatically get the bug fixes and other improvements of the autotest framework. More importantly, it will make merging the xen- or libguestfs-autotest into upstream much easier. The interfaces look pretty nice to me. I hope I can send some patch while moving to the refactored library. -- Regards. Jinxin _______________________________________________ Autotest mailing list [email protected] http://test.kernel.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/autotest
