Re: [MirageOS-devel] Testing for the Xen Project

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2014-02-18 at 12:18 +0000, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> [+CC Ian Campbell]

Ian Jackson is the communioty WG member. Adding another CC ;-)

> 
> Our specific need is actually pretty short term -- we can easily build a 
> number of 'unit test' kernels that do simple activities such as boot, write 
> to xenstore, attach a net/block front, and verify basic health conditions 
> (such as whether the backend moves to the connected state).
> 
> Distro support for a lot of this seems to be in a variable state across the 
> board.  For instance, we'd like to have a known-good configuration for 
> Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and CentOS in terms of which toolchain to use (xl, xm, 
> libvirt in particular) and what configurations to recommend to users 
> installing Xen.  Debian stable is still on XM for instance, with an unclear 
> story on libvirt support, whereas Ubuntu appears to have problems with xl and 
> starting up blktap.
> 
> More structured unit tests that run on all these platforms would be extremely 
> useful to highlight issues early, and Mirage provides an easy way to build 
> these tests (see https://github.com/mirage/mirage-skeleton for a growing 
> number).
> 
> We don't really have the resources to maintain the sysadmin infrastructure 
> for these tests, but can certainly help with triaging failures.  The biggest 
> blocker for new users of Mirage that I've talked to (often unfamiliar with 
> both OCaml and Xen) has usually been getting to a working Xen installation, 
> so I'd like to have a few recommended setups as soon as possible. 
> 
> cheers,
> Anil
> 
> On 18 Feb 2014, at 12:10, Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Minutes are up : 
> > http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/wg-test-framework/2014-02/msg00004.html
> > However, I think Mirage would need to engage with Ian as community rep and 
> > Mirage support woul dbe under long term goals I would assume
> > Lars
> > 
> > On 17/02/2014 18:05, Amir Chaudhry wrote:
> >> Hi Lars,
> >> 
> >> I'm curious about where things stand with the testing for the Xen project. 
> >>  I've gone through the wg-test-framework archives and tried to catchup 
> >> with minutes. I'm wondering when the next set will be posted (from the 
> >> meeting on the 13th).
> >> 
> >> Having a testing setup for Xen would be really useful for Mirage.  Since 
> >> we're having more people try out our tutorials and knowing the state of 
> >> things in different environments would help us catch issues quicker.
> >> 
> >> Thanks,
> >> Amir
> >> 
> >> 
> > 
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