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

[Cleber Rosa]

On 10/4/18 9:09 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> 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.
> 

That's true, and that's due to a connection timeout to the QMP socket.
It's a known issue that we're tracking here:

https://trello.com/c/O882Vulm/44-qemumachine-even-if-we-expect-qemu-to-exit-with-an-error

And Wainer Moschetta (+cc) is working on it.

Regards,
- Cleber.

> thanks
> -- PMM
>