Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] travis.yml: Enable acceptance KVM tests

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 1/24/20 10:44 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 24/01/2020 10.38, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> > On 1/22/20 2:27 AM, Wainer dos Santos Moschetta wrote:
> > > Some acceptance tests require KVM or they are skipped. Travis
> > > enables nested virtualization by default with Ubuntu
> > > 18.04 (Bionic) on x86_64. So in order to run the kvm tests, this
> > > changed the acceptance builder to run in a Bionic VM. Also
> > > it was needed to ensure the current user has rw permission
> > > to /dev/kvm.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Wainer dos Santos Moschetta <address@hidden>
> > > ---
> > >    .travis.yml | 7 ++++++-
> > >    1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
> > > index 6c1038a0f1..c3edd0a907 100644
> > > --- a/.travis.yml
> > > +++ b/.travis.yml
> > > @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
> > >    # Additional builds with specific requirements for a full VM need to
> > >    # be added as additional matrix: entries later on
> > >    dist: xenial
> > > +sudo: true
> > >    language: c
> > >    compiler:
> > >      - gcc
> > > @@ -83,6 +84,9 @@ git:
> > >      before_script:
> > >      - if command -v ccache ; then ccache --zero-stats ; fi
> > > +  - if [[ -e /dev/kvm ]] && ! [[ -r /dev/kvm && -w /dev/kvm ]]; then
> > > +        sudo chmod o+rw /dev/kvm ;
> > > +    fi
> > >      - mkdir -p ${BUILD_DIR} && cd ${BUILD_DIR}
> > >      - ${SRC_DIR}/configure ${BASE_CONFIG} ${CONFIG} || { cat
> > > config.log && exit 1; }
> > >    script:
> > > @@ -272,12 +276,13 @@ matrix:
> > >            - TEST_CMD="make check-acceptance"
> > >          after_script:
> > >            - python3 -c 'import json; r =
> > > json.load(open("tests/results/latest/results.json"));
> > > [print(t["logfile"]) for t in r["tests"] if t["status"] not in
> > > ("PASS", "SKIP")]' | xargs cat
> > > +      dist: bionic
> > >          addons:
> > >            apt:
> > >              packages:
> > >                - python3-pil
> > >                - python3-pip
> > > -            - python3.5-venv
> > > +            - python3.6-venv
> >
> > This line doesn't seem related to the patch.
>
> "dist:" has been switched from xenial to bionic, so I think it is
> required to update to python3.6 here, too?

OK, I got confused because line 4 is still "dist: xenial".

Wainer can you add a comment about this in the commit description?

I'm still not convinced we should enable "sudo: true" on all our jobs.