Fam Zheng <f...@redhat.com> writes:
> Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <f...@redhat.com>
> ---
> tests/vm/README | 85
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> diff --git a/tests/vm/README b/tests/vm/README
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> +=== VM test suite to run build in guests ===
> +
> +== Intro ==
> +
> +This test suite contains scripts that bootstrap various guest images that
> have
> +necessary packages to build QEMU. The basic usage is documented in Makefile
> +help which is displayed with "make vm-test".
> +
> +== Quick start ==
> +
> +Run "make vm-test" to list available make targets. Invoke a specific make
> +command to run build test in an image. For example, "make vm-build-freebsd"
> +will build the source tree in the FreeBSD image. The command can be executed
> +from either the source tree or the build dir; if the former, ./configure is
> not
> +needed. The command will then generate the test image in ./tests/vm/ under
> the
> +working directory.
> +
> +== QEMU binary ==
> +
> +By default, qemu-system-x86_64 is searched in $PATH to run the guest. If
> there
> +isn't one, or if it is older than 2.10, the test won't work. In this case,
> +provide the QEMU binary in env var: QEMU=/path/to/qemu-2.10+.
> +
> +== Make jobs ==
> +
> +The "-j$X" option in the make command line is not propagated into the VM,
> +specify "J=$X" to control the make jobs in the guest.
> +
> +== Debugging ==
> +
> +Add "DEBUG=1" and/or "V=1" to the make command to allow interactive debugging
> +and verbose output. If this is not enough, see the next section.
> +
> +== Manual invocation ==
> +
> +Each guest script is an executable script with the same command line options.
> +For example to work with the netbsd guest, use $QEMU_SRC/tests/vm/netbsd:
> +
> + $ cd $QEMU_SRC/tests/vm
> +
> + # To bootstrap the image
> + $ ./netbsd --build-image --image /var/tmp/netbsd.img
> + <...>
> +
> + # To run an arbitrary command in guest (the output will not be echoed
> unless
> + # --debug is added)
> + $ ./netbsd --debug --image /var/tmp/netbsd.img uname -a
> +
> + # To build QEMU in guest
> + $ ./netbsd --debug --image /var/tmp/netbsd.img --build-qemu
> $QEMU_SRC
This doesn't work:
10:41:38 [alex@zen:~/l/q/q/t/vm] review/fam-vmbuild-v8(+2/-2) ± ./netbsd
--debug --image netbsd.img --build-qemu /home/alex/lsrc/qemu/qemu.git/
DEBUG:root:Creating archive ./vm-test-9yVAeh.tmp/data-9b5f9.tar for src_dir
dir: /home/alex/lsrc/qemu/qemu.git/
./scripts/archive-source.sh: 27: ./scripts/archive-source.sh: cannot create
./vm-test-9yVAeh.tmp/data-9b5f9.tar.list: Directory nonexistent
Failed to prepare guest environment
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/alex/lsrc/qemu/qemu.git/tests/vm/basevm.py", line 234, in main
vm.add_source_dir(args.build_qemu)
File "/home/alex/lsrc/qemu/qemu.git/tests/vm/basevm.py", line 140, in
add_source_dir
stdout=self._stdout, stderr=self._stderr)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 541, in check_call
raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
CalledProcessError: Command '['./scripts/archive-source.sh',
'./vm-test-9yVAeh.tmp/data-9b5f9.tar']' returned non-zero exit status 2
Either adjust the call to be from QEMU_SRC or make the call to
archive-source smarter.
> +
> + # To get to an interactive shell
> + $ ./netbsd --interactive --image /var/tmp/netbsd.img sh
> +
> +== Adding new guests ==
> +
> +Please look at existing guest scripts for how to add new guests.
> +
> +Most importantly, create a subclass of BaseVM and implement build_image()
> +method and define BUILD_SCRIPT, then finally call basevm.main() from the
> +script's main().
> +
> + - Usually in build_image(), a template image is downloaded from a
> predefined
> + URL. BaseVM._download_with_cache() takes care of the cache and the
> + checksum, so consider using it.
> +
> + - Once the image is downloaded, users, SSH server and QEMU build deps
> should
> + be set up:
> +
> + * Root password set to BaseVM.ROOT_PASS
> + * User BaseVM.GUEST_USER is created, and password set to
> BaseVM.GUEST_PASS
> + * SSH service is enabled and started on boot,
> + $QEMU_SRC/tests/keys/id_rsa.pub is added to ssh's "authorized_keys"
> file
> + of both root and the normal user
> + * DHCP client service is enabled and started on boot, so that it can
> + automatically configure the virtio-net-pci NIC and communicate with
> QEMU
> + user net (10.0.2.2)
> + * Necessary packages are installed to untar the source tarball and build
> + QEMU
> +
> + - Write a proper BUILD_SCRIPT template, which should be a shell script that
> + untars a raw virtio-blk block device, which is the tarball data blob of
> the
> + QEMU source tree, then configure/build it. Running "make check" is also
> + recommended.
> +
--
Alex Bennée
