Re: [Qemu-devel] travis-ci 'make check' timeouts (was Re: [PULL 00/11] x86 queue, 2017-02-27)

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 02/03/2017 16:39, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 07:17:39PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On 28 February 2017 at 19:12, Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> I saw a failure on x86-pull-request that seemed to be because of
>>> vhost-user-test[1]. However, after restarting the job, it
>>> passed[2].
>>
>> I'm currently processing a patch which (hopefully) fixes
>> vhost-user-test's intermittent failures:
>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/732747/
> 
> I'm not sure it will solve the issues on hosts without KVM. As
> far as I can see, if vhost-user-test is working without KVM, it
> is working by accident.

Well, it has worked for a while before the patch.  As long as you don't
overwrite code with vhost-user data and then try to run that data,
things will be fine.  Just not something you can use in practice, but it
works in tests.

Paolo