Re: [Xen-API] xen-api build and test environment

[Dave Scott <Dave.Scott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Celso,

On 28 Apr 2014, at 23:26, Celso Fernandes <fernandes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Dave,
> 
> How are you building packages for Debian?
> 
> I had to hack on xenserver:buildroot/blob/master/scripts/deb/configure.sh and 
> some other files to be able to build the packages for Debian
> 
> Is there any other way? Does worth to send a PR with these changes?

I don’t think there’s any other way at the moment. Please do send a PR with the 
changes!

Thanks,
Dave

> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Celso Fernandes
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> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Dave Scott <Dave.Scott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Edwin,
> 
> On 16 Apr 2014, at 11:36, Zhai, Edwin <edwin.zhai@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > All,
> > We are trying to add some new feature in xen-api and test in openstack 
> > environment. But build xen-api accroding to README.markdown at 
> > https://github.com/xapi-project/xen-api.git on ubuntu 12.04 always failed. 
> > There are dependences not in documents, like blktap-dev, and also some 
> > basic build failure, like obuild.
> >
> > Just curious how xen-api developer do the build? Build it stand-alone, or 
> > with xenserver? Do you have frequent fresh build test?
> 
> For components like ‘xenopsd’, ‘xcp-networkd’ etc I prefer to install all the 
> dependencies in CentOS (or Debian) via xenserver-core[1]. I can then clone 
> the repo and build the binaries.
> 
> For ‘xapi’ itself the xenserver-core .spec file references a branch with a 
> couple of build fixes in it. These need to be tidied up and merged to master— 
> Bob Ball (cc:d) and I are trying to sort this out.
> 
> I think we should try to create a ‘vagrant box’ configuration to help people 
> set this up — what do you think?
> 
> > Another question is how you do the test? Do you have some simple unit test 
> > tools to verify API function, or you test it in XCP environment?
> 
> For ‘xapi’, there are a few unit tests which run as part of the build. 
> There’s also a program called ‘quicktest’ (in the xen-api repo) which can 
> install VMs, suspend/resume, migrate etc. After that we normally run system 
> tests via xenrt[2]
> 
> > Do you have plan do do some test in openstack environment? You know, 
> > libvirt in openstack doesn't support xen well.
> 
> I think xapi is tested as part of the XenServer openstack CI[3]
> 
> HTH,
> Dave
> [1] https://github.com/xenserver/xenserver-core
> [2] 
> http://www.xenserver.org/discuss-virtualization/virtualization-blog/entry/introducing-open-source-xenrt.html
> [3] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/XenServer/XenServer_CI
> 
> >
> >
> > Best Rgds,
> > Edwin
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