On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 05:10:43AM +0530, Ani Sinha wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 12:43 AM Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 06:20:20PM +0530, Ani Sinha wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 6:15 PM Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> > wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 06:12:10PM +0530, Ani Sinha wrote: > > > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 6:08 PM Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 06:04:56PM +0530, Ani Sinha wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Changelog: > > > > > > v6: > > > > > > - skip test when dependencies (xorriso for example) are not > installed. > > > > > > - skip test when run on a platform other than x86_64. > > > > > > > > > > Hmm why is that btw? > > > > > > > > The bits binaries that generate the iso (grub-mkrescue etc) are > built > > > > for and are known to work only on x86_64 platform. They might also > > > > work on amd64 but I do not have one at my disposal at the moment to > > > > check. > > > > On other platforms, for example 32 bit x86 and non-x86, those > binaries > > > > will likely not work. The test will fail. > > > > > > confused. I thought we are distributing the iso? > > > > No, the test builds the iso after adding the modified test scripts and > > then spawns the vm with it. It is all part of the test itself. > > We need to do that so that the iso contains the newly added tests etc. > > It's good to have for people developing tests, but for most qemu > developers please just have a ready iso and have avocado fetch it. > It's important to make tests run on all platforms. > > > This changes things a lot and goes down the path of where do we check in test > code changes? Do we deal with multiple repos? Where do we keep iso? Etc. > having > a static iso limits us also.
It's the same as any firmware really. I don't see much of a difference. > If we can think through and come up with a consensus, I can write a second > test. Else let's just go with this first. We can go ahead for now. > If we are really keen on running > tests on multiple platforms, we can have binaries built for those. > Oh my. Not dealing with this is *exactly* what people use virtualization for. > > > We can think about moving iso generation into a VM too > but as a first step I guess we can live with a container. > > -- > MST > >
