[PATCH 0/2] tests/acceptance: Add boot vmlinux test

[Wainer dos Santos Moschetta]

This series add a new acceptance test: boot an uncompressed
Linux kernel built with CONFIG_PVH, so checking the PVH
capability introduced in QEMU 4.0 works.

The test implementation depends on [1] which is likely released
on next Avocado. So that will need a version 2 of this
series to bump Avocado version.

Also I want to use this as an example of a scenario that test
assets could be better managed. As you see on patch 01 the
kernel is built at test time on localhost. While Avocado provides
an API to easily fetch and build it, the whole process takes
reasonable time - besides the fact that localhost must have
all build dependencies installed. How could it be done better?

Nonetheless I argue in favor of merging this as is, and
gradually implement corrections to improve the tests assets
management. Also if eventually the test is proven to unacceptable
slow down the Travis CI then I can add a guard to skip it.

[1] https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/pull/3389

Wainer dos Santos Moschetta (2):
  tests/acceptance: Add PVH boot test
  .travis.yml: Add kernel build deps for acceptance tests

 .travis.yml             |  2 ++
 tests/acceptance/pvh.py | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 50 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 tests/acceptance/pvh.py

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