Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL v3 00/28] ivshmem deprecation, qtests, typedefs and gnu99

[Peter Maydell]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 at 18:26, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 1/18/19 3:20 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > I tried the "raise the timeout" change you suggested on IRC.
> > That gave me a pass the first time around but the same failure
> > second time I tried it:
> >
> > MALLOC_PERTURB_=${MALLOC_PERTURB_:-$(( ${RANDOM:-0} % 255 + 1))}
> > QTEST_QEMU_BINARY=i386-softmmu/qemu-system-i386
> > QTEST_QEMU_IMG=qemu-img tests/ipmi-bt-test -m=quick -k --tap <
> > /dev/null | ./scripts/tap-driver.pl --test-name="ipmi-bt-test"
> > **
> > ERROR:tests/ipmi-bt-test.c:319:test_connect: assertion failed: (rv == 1)
> > ERROR - too few tests run (expected 4, got 0)
> > [1]   Abort trap (core dumped) MALLOC_PERTURB_=... |
> >       Done(1)                 ./scripts/tap-dr...
> > /var/tmp/qemu-test.TATvqX/tests/Makefile.include:856: recipe for
> > target 'check-qtest-i386' failed
>
> I guess I finally figured it out, the test binds IPv4 and on the NetBSD
> VM, 'localhost' resolves as IPv6 so the guest can't connect to the test.

This theory doesn't explain why the test sometimes passes and
sometimes fails, though...

thanks
-- PMM