Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 0/3] acceptance tests: Test firmware checking debug console output

[Peter Maydell]

On 4 October 2018 at 14:04, Alex Bennée <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Alex Bennée <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> This RFC series add simple acceptance tests which boot SeaBIOS and EDK2 on
>>> the pc and virt/aarch64 default machines
>>>
>>> Still PoC but can be useful for the Avocado team to test the
>>> multi-arch targets.
>>
>> I couldn't get this to work on qemu-test (aarch64):
>>
>>   12:52:56 address@hidden:~/l/qemu.git] review/acceptance-rfc-v2 + avocado 
>> run tests/acceptance
>>   JOB ID     : b6377b8d4196903846c7d57e2b234c523d6c6ba1
>>   JOB LOG    : 
>> /home/alex/avocado/job-results/job-2018-10-04T12.53-b6377b8/job.log
>>    (1/9) tests/acceptance/boot_firmware.py:BootFirmware.test_seabios: ERROR: 
>> timed out (15.14 s)
>>    (2/9) tests/acceptance/boot_firmware.py:BootFirmware.test_ovmf_pc: ERROR: 
>> timed out (15.14 s)
>>    (3/9) tests/acceptance/boot_firmware.py:BootFirmware.test_ovmf_virt: 
>> FAIL: OVMF failed to boot (17.97 s)
>>    (4/9) tests/acceptance/boot_linux_console.py:BootLinuxConsole.test: 
>> ERROR: timed out (17.36 s)
>>    (5/9) tests/acceptance/version.py:Version.test_qmp_human_info_version: 
>> ERROR: timed out (15.14 s)
>>    (6/9) tests/acceptance/vnc.py:Vnc.test_no_vnc: ERROR: timed out (15.14 s)
>>    (7/9) tests/acceptance/vnc.py:Vnc.test_no_vnc_change_password: ERROR: 
>> timed out (15.14 s)
>>    (8/9) 
>> tests/acceptance/vnc.py:Vnc.test_vnc_change_password_requires_a_password: 
>> ERROR: timed out (15.14 s)
>>    (9/9) tests/acceptance/vnc.py:Vnc.test_vnc_change_password: ERROR: timed 
>> out (15.14 s)
>>   RESULTS    : PASS 0 | ERROR 8 | FAIL 1 | SKIP 0 | WARN 0 | INTERRUPT 0 | 
>> CANCEL 0
>>   JOB TIME   : 142.37 s
>>
>> The error log: https://transfer.sh/lK71v/avocado-errors.log
>
> It looks like it's trying to launch a pc (rather than virt) machine:
>
>   2018-10-04 12:53:16,339 qemu             L0270 DEBUG| Output: 
> 'qemu-system-aarch64: -machine pc: unsupported machine type\nUse -machine 
> help to list supported machines\n'

That also suggests a secondary bug somewhere: if QEMU
exits immediately with an error, then the test should
fail immediately, not wait for a 15s timeout before
it notices.

thanks
-- PMM