Re: [Xen-devel] [Wg-test-framework] osstest going live in new test colo

[Chris Shepherd <Chris.Shepherd@xxxxxxxxxx>]

And thanks Ian for your vision and dogged persistence on this. Great to have 
this up and running!


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[mailto:wg-test-framework-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ian Jackson
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Cc: Ian Campbell
Subject: [Wg-test-framework] osstest going live in new test colo

Based on our commissioning tests, the new facility now has greater capacity and 
better reliability than the existing setup in the Citrix Cambridge office.

I'm therefore going to set the new system going in production mode, and shut 
down the old one.

There are a few loose ends to get the cron jobs working right which I expect to 
have sorted out very soon.  In the meantime I have already instructed the old 
system to drain its queue, with the expectation of going fully live with the 
new system on Friday.

You will be able to tell when test reports are coming from the new system 
because they will have flight numbers >=50000.


There are still some problems with the new facility.  Of the 24 x86 test hosts, 
only 12 are currently live.  Of the remainder:

 * 2 pairs (4 hosts, chardonnay[01] and elbling[01]) are affected by 2
   different kernel/hypervisor bugs.  I have not yet reported these
   properly, but will do so shortly.  I hope to get community help
   with resolving them.

 * 1 pair (2 hosts, oseleta[01]) are affected by what appears to be a
   BIOS bug that sometimes prevents the machine rebooting; this is
   with our supplier.

 * 1 pair (2 hosts, godello[01]) cannot boot Debian wheezy i386, nor
   boot under Xen.  I suspect buggy ACPI tables in the BIOS but have
   not yet investigated in detail.

 * For 2 pairs (4 hosts, huxelrebe[01] and rimava[01]) we have yet to
   gain useable remote access to the BIOS configuration.  This is
   being worked on by our supplier with advice from hardware vendors.

However, the existing setup has only x86 10 hosts, so the new lab is bigger.  
The new colo has better (more, and more reliable) ARM hosts
(cubietruck-* and arndale-*).  And the existing setup is affected by various 
problems with the underlying infrastructure.


Thanks very much to Ian Campbell and Lars Kurth for their help, and for the 
support and patience of the Xen Project Test Working Group and the community in 
general.

Ian.

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