Re: [Xen-devel] Update seabios and upstream qemu versions used on xen-unstable

[Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni@xxxxxxx>]

Il 16/04/2014 12:04, Ian Campbell ha scritto:
> On Wed, 2014-04-16 at 10:33 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 09:41:20PM +0200, Fabio Fantoni wrote:
> > [...]
> > > >From qemu 1.3 I kept testing the upstream qemu as far as I could, to find and
> > > report any regressions with xen.
> > > Unfortunately I did not have enough time and in some cases the knowledge to
> > > fix and/or improve some things to try to ensure a good integration, use of
> > > the main new qemu features, and exemptions from criticism regressions with
> > > xen before of the new qemu stable versions release.
> > > An important first step, perhaps the most important would be to keep the
> > > tested with qemu upstream xen during the development of each version (
> > > http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/master) in
> > > order to immediately
> > > identify any regression with xen and resolve as soon as possible or at
> > > least report
> > > it on qemu-devel.
> > > I gave a quick look at the git osstest to eventually try to use it on a
> > > test server and run necessary automated tests for the nights but I did not
> > > understand enough and I have almost no knowledge of perl, and perhaps even
> > > more my very bad english...
> > I presume you've checked out osstest related posts on blog.xen.org.
> > Given your requirement you might want to use it in "production" mode
> > which automatically runs testcases and do bisection. I don't think it's
> > very easy to setup, you might want to speak to Ian Campbell or Ian
> > Jackson.
> Adding a new branch flight is a bit harder to do without access to the
> infra. You can see my libvirt patch for an example of the sort of thing
> which is needed.
>
> I can't speak for IanJ but I'm pretty busy with various things,
> including the libvirt flight for osstest. I can probably look into doing
> seabios at some point though.
>
> > > There is a method to easy and fast have working dns/dhcp/tftp enough to
> > > osstest?
> > DNS/DHCP/TFTP are generanl IT infrastructure, not part of OSSTest. But I
> > admit it's never easy to maintain them...
> At home i use dnsmasq which is pretty simple and provides at least the
> first two (DNS+DHCP) I think it can do TFTP too but I tend to us the
> regular tftpd on a difference host for various tedious reasons...
>
> Ian.
Thanks for your reply.
Trying to test myself if what I want try when I'll have some time.
For controller domU o phisical pc with debian 7 and dnsmasq and tftp 
from official package can be working and good?
About server for dom0 testing I can't at home beacause I have the 
computer in the room where I sleep, I can on office but probably there 
is a problem of other dhcp and dns server of samba 4 pdc on the only and 
same network.
For osstest should be not have other dns and dhcp server (or probably 
only dhcp) on the same network, right?
Thanks for any reply and sorry for my bad english.

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