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

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian (Jackson), any input on this thread?  We're preparing the intern projects 
for GSoC and OPW, and it would be useful to know if there's any practical 
testing facilities on the horizon, or if we should roll our own.

cheers,
Anil

On 18 Feb 2014, at 12:25, Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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