Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/6] Avocado: start multi-arch tests, add a Travis job

[Cleber Rosa]

On 06/28/2018 11:46 AM, Alex Bennée wrote:
> 
> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Another neanderthal approach to add multi-arch acceptance tests using
>> Avocado.
>>
>> Since Cleber Rosa work got merged [0], I can restart my previous attempt [1]
>> at using Avocado in QEMU.
>> Cleber Rosa rewrote my previous v1 [1], in good python, now this v2 pushes
>> a bit further:
>> - we can now run other archs
>> - Avocado is integrated into Travis CI
>>
>> I'm not sure Travis is the best CI available for those tests, but it runs
>> quite fast:
>>
>>       ...
>>       LINK    x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64
>>     JOB ID     : a3a56af3c02d193e862ce660aae1d9c72926dcb6
>>     JOB LOG    : 
>> /home/travis/avocado/job-results/job-2018-06-21T23.49-a3a56af/job.log
>>      (1/7) 
>> tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsoleX86_64.test:  PASS 
>> (3.89 s)
>>      (2/7) tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsoleMips.test: 
>>  PASS (1.83 s)
>>      (3/7) tests/acceptance/version.py:Version.test_qmp_human_info_version:  
>> PASS (0.05 s)
>>      (4/7) tests/acceptance/vnc.py:Vnc.test_no_vnc:  PASS (0.04 s)
>>      (5/7) tests/acceptance/vnc.py:Vnc.test_no_vnc_change_password:  PASS 
>> (0.04 s)
>>      (6/7) 
>> tests/acceptance/vnc.py:Vnc.test_vnc_change_password_requires_a_password:  
>> PASS (0.05 s)
>>      (7/7) tests/acceptance/vnc.py:Vnc.test_vnc_change_password:  PASS (0.05 
>> s)
>>     RESULTS    : PASS 7 | ERROR 0 | FAIL 0 | SKIP 0 | WARN 0 | INTERRUPT 0 | 
>> CANCEL 0
>>     JOB TIME   : 6.21 s
> 
> Hmm however if I do:
> 
>    pip install --user avocado-framework
>    avocado run tests/acceptance
> 
> I get:
> 
>    Failed to load plugin from module "avocado_vt.plugins.vt_list": 
> ImportError('No module named netaddr',)
>    Failed to load plugin from module "avocado_vt.plugins.vt": ImportError('No 
> module named netaddr',)
>    Failed to load plugin from module "avocado_vt.plugins.vt_bootstrap": 
> OSError(13, 'Permission denied')

Alex,

These are errors related to your installation of Avocado-*VT*[1].

>    Error running method "run" of plugin "virt": 'Namespace' object has no 
> attribute 'default_avocado_params'
>    Avocado crashed unexpectedly: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 
> '/var/lib/libvirt/images/avocado_sg6NRi'
>    You can find details in 
> /var/tmp/avocado-traceback-2018-06-28_16:44:25-DGb1CG.log
> 

And these from Avocado-*Virt*[2].  Neither of those are used in the
tests under "tests/acceptance".

> Which I seem to remember from last time I looked into this. I think
> avocado makes a bunch of assumptions about the filesystem and OS layout
> which is hard to gloss over for something you should be able to run
> straight out of the source tree.
> 
> 

These Avocado-*VT* issues deserve a better look indeed.  Would you
please describe (if not here, under a GH issue) your environment?

Thanks,
- Cleber.

[1] - https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado-vt
[2] - https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado-virt

>>
>>     Done. Your build exited with 0.
>>
>>     Job ran for 5 min 34 sec
>>
>> I couldn't add the Alpha tests because all the vmlinux kernels I found
>> online are gzipped, so I'm waiting some upstream Avocado merges before.
>>
>> Cleber: I hope you can help me pythonizing this series :p
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Phil.
>>
>> [0]: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-06/msg04531.html
>> [1]: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-04/msg03076.html
>>
>> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé (6):
>>   avocado: Add a Test.arch property
>>   tests/acceptance: Rename the x86-64 specific BootLinuxConsole test
>>   tests/acceptance: Improve the Avocado tags
>>   tests/acceptance: Add a BootLinuxConsoleMips test
>>   tests/acceptance: Add a kludge to not use the default console
>>   travis: Add Avocado tests
>>
>>  .travis.yml                               |  8 +++++
>>  scripts/qemu.py                           |  6 ++--
>>  tests/acceptance/avocado_qemu/__init__.py | 17 ++++++---
>>  tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py    | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++--
>>  4 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> --
> Alex Bennée
> 

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Cleber Rosa
[ Sr Software Engineer - Virtualization Team - Red Hat ]
[ Avocado Test Framework - avocado-framework.github.io ]
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