On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:21 AM, Michael Goldish <mgoldish@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > ----- "Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues" <lmr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> As it is hard to guarantee that a qcow2 image will be in a >> consistent state with a VM turned on, take an extra safety >> step and make sure the preprocessor shuts down the VMs >> before the post process command check_image.py runs. >> >> Signed-off-by: Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@xxxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> client/tests/kvm/tests_base.cfg.sample | 2 ++ >> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/client/tests/kvm/tests_base.cfg.sample >> b/client/tests/kvm/tests_base.cfg.sample >> index 340b0c0..beae786 100644 >> --- a/client/tests/kvm/tests_base.cfg.sample >> +++ b/client/tests/kvm/tests_base.cfg.sample >> @@ -1049,6 +1049,8 @@ variants: >> post_command = " python scripts/check_image.py;" >> remove_image = no >> post_command_timeout = 600 >> + kill_vm = yes >> + kill_vm_gracefully = yes > > That's not necessarily bad, but this may significantly slow down > testing because it means the VM will shutdown and boot up again > after every qcow2 test. It'll also separate the tests in an > unnatural way, eliminating the possibility of catching problems > that only appear after several consecutive tests (such problems > may or may not be possible, I'm not sure). > Maybe we should consider specifying the post_command for only some > of the tests, or add a dedicated test for this purpose, or even > a no-op test that only shuts down the VM and runs the post command. Or we could make this post command non critical and avoid the shutdowns. This way we'd pay attention to failures only when investigating the logs, this way if the consistency check fails on a situation where it shouldn't then we'd take an action. >> - vmdk: >> only Fedora Ubuntu Windows >> only smp2 >> -- >> 1.6.6.1 >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- Lucas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
