Re: [Xen-devel] osstest - howTo

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:08:34AM +0200, Mihai Bucicoiu wrote:
> On 7/15/2013 4:33 PM, George Dunlap wrote:
> >On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Mihai Bucicoiu
> ><mihai.bucicoiu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I'm trying to figure out how can Xen be tested. As far as I could find out
> >>there is a testing framework that can be used, called osstest. [1]
> >What are you trying to accomplish with the testing?
> This is a very good question that I don't really have an answer to it.
> >>But this, if I got it right,this requires a reboot of the tested host, while
> >>we need to test Xen without rebooting it. There seems also to be a local
> >>version ("OSSTEST_JOB=<job> ./ts-debian-install host=bedbug" from README)
> >>but it only tests if a VM can be started.
> >Why do you not want to reboot the host?
> We are building a live update system for Xen, and after the patch is

Just courious, are you talking about patching Xen hypervisor on the fly?


Wei.

> applied we do not want to reboot, we want to test if everything is
> still functional. We tested our system in the sense the the VMs are
> still running and the services (we only tried a simple web server)
> inside the VM still run. New VMs can also be started. But the
> question is are the other services that Xen provide still available
> (e.g., can dom0 do all the hypercalls in a proper way).
> 
> - Mihai
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