[Qemu-devel] Re: Buildbot for qemu.git/master

[Alexander Graf]

On 08.02.2011, at 12:23, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote:

> On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 09:23 +0000, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>> Public automated qemu.git autotest would be excellent.  To be honest I
>> haven't had much visibility of KVM-Autotest myself as a QEMU/KVM
>> developer.  I suspect many others haven't either but there are big
>> benefits if we can change this.  By running your automated tests on
>> qemu.git in public we'll catch bugs earlier.
>> 
>> Do you want to add KVM-Autotest buildslave(s) or are you looking for
>> something like a HTTP POST notifier that pings you about new qemu.git
>> HEADs to test?
> 
> The biggest challenge is to have machines publicly accessible to perform
> testing, right now we use the machines of our internal laboratory to
> perform those tests. About notifiers of new git commits, I am unsure
> whether we should test every and each git commit, since even sanity test
> takes a while (the typical 84 tests of a sanity job take around 3 hours
> to execute on fast machines). Of course, we might improve our ability to
> perform parallel testing, or perhaps reducing test scope.
> 
> Bottom line, the thing here is to have available hardware externally
> accessible, just like the buildbot that was setup, mentioned previously
> on this thread.

Can you have some machines wired up externally? I could certainly try to get a 
ppc machine set up on an externally reachable network if that's any help. S390 
might be a bit more tricky...


Alex