Re: [Xen-devel] OSSTest: How to resue Xen

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:23:58AM +0000, Hu, Robert wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wei Liu
> > Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 6:17 PM
> > To: Hu, Robert
> > Cc: Wei Liu; Pang, LongtaoX; 'Ian Jackson'; Ian Campbell; 
> > xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] OSSTest: How to resue Xen
> > 
> > On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 03:10:51AM +0000, Hu, Robert wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > We know we can reuse host by setting OSSTEST_HOST_REUSE=1 in
> > environment.
> > > I'm wondering is there any way to reuse Xen install? And even guest reuse
> > possible?
> > >
> > 
> > What is the difference between reusing host and "reuse Xen install"?
> > 
> > If what you want is not to compile Xen every time I think OSSTest
> > already does that.
> > 
> Reuse host prevents host reinstall.
> 'Reuse Xen' here I mentioned is not to re-invoke ts-xen-install in 
> sg-run-job. In sg-run-job, once it invokes ts-xen-install, the latter will 
> install Xen on host; not compiling it, which is done in build-* job.

OIC.

I don't know how to skip a specific test step. Perhap Ian and Ian
know some magic runes to do so.

Looking at the source code, OSSTEST_HOST_REUSE sets $ho->{SharedReady},
then ts-host-install and ts-xen-build-prep exits if it's set. Perhaps
you can have a similar check for ts-xen-install.

Wei.

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