On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 04:08:41PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote: > > This is an interesting use of kvm-unit-tests. Ideally we'd keep avoid > > the key press, which could complicate an automated test. Above you say > > some SPRs change their content automatically. Are any of those changes > > something that can be predicted in the case of a migration? I.e. could > > we monitor them to see if a migration occurred? > > I don't think that it is very easy to detect the end of the migration > like this... the registers I was talking about are things like the > decrementer or timebase registers. > > If we really want to automate this, we could maybe use something like > the machine check interrupt instead (which can be triggered with the > "nmi" HMP command in QEMU, I think) to let the guest know about the end > of the migration. But all that would also require quite some additional > logic in the runner script, I think. Not sure whether it's worth the > effort just for this one small test, which can also be run manually from > time to time... But if you think we should really go this way, let me > know, then I can have a try... I'm OK with time-to-time manual tests. I wonder if we should add a run_tests.sh cmdline switch that enables all manual tests somehow. This would allow us to run the complete collection of manual tests easily, not forgetting any. drew -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm-ppc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
