Re: [Xen-devel] [qemu-upstream-unstable test] 20100: regressions - FAIL

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2013-10-07 at 18:29 +0100, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 05:19:33PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2013-10-07 at 17:06 +0100, xen.org wrote:
> > > flight 20100 qemu-upstream-unstable real [real]
> > > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~xensrcts/logs/20100/
> > > 
> > > Regressions :-(
> > > 
> > > Tests which did not succeed and are blocking,
> > > including tests which could not be run:
> > >  test-amd64-i386-qemuu-rhel6hvm-intel  4 xen-install       fail REGR. vs. 
> > > 20054
> > 
> > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~xensrcts/logs/20100/test-amd64-i386-qemuu-rhel6hvm-amd/4.ts-xen-install.log
> >         2013-10-07 14:57:51 Z executing ssh ... root@xxxxxxxxxxxx   
> > outcome=true
> >             for f in /usr/local/etc/* /usr/local/var/*; do
> >                 if test -e "$f"; then
> >                     case "$f" in
> >                     /usr/local/etc/qemu)
> >                             echo >&2 "*** WARNING IGNORING FORBIDDEN PATH: 
> > $f"
> >                             ;;
> >                         *)
> >                         echo >&2 "*** FORBIDDEN PATH IN USE, install 
> > problem: $f"
> >                         outcome=false
> >                             ;;
> >                         esac
> >                 fi
> >             done
> >             $outcome
> >         
> >         *** WARNING IGNORING FORBIDDEN PATH: /usr/local/etc/qemu
> >         *** FORBIDDEN PATH IN USE, install problem: /usr/local/var/run
> > 
> > /var/run is the right path to be using IIRC.
> > 
> > I think this means we need to improve our call to qemu's configure
> > script...
> 
> With a --disable-guest-agent ? :-) (which is not used under xen)
> Or just a --localstatedir=/var. I've seen localstatedir used only once
> in the QEMU build system, and it's only used when the guest agent is
> enabled, and it's only used to create /var/run.
> 
> I suppose --localstatedir would be the best option here.

Perhaps both? If guest-agent is useless under Xen then lets disable it
(I imagine if it were useful people would get it via the guest distro
and not us anyhow) and lets definitely pass a correct localstatedir to
catch and future uses too.

Ian.


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