Re: [PATCH-for-6.0 v4 15/17] gitlab-ci: Add test for Xen (on CentOS 7)

[Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 27 Nov 2020, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 12:45:59PM -0500, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 05:38:24PM +0000, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> > > Is `make check` going to do something useful with the Xen support? Or is
> > > it going to need more work in order to test the Xen support of QEMU?
> > > (Like starting an actual Xen guest.)
> > 
> > I don't think it will test Xen support, but we still want to at
> > least check if --enable-xen doesn't break anything else.
> 
> That sound good.
> 
> > Is there any public CI system anywhere where Xen support is
> > tested today?
> 
> Yes, we have osstest which regularly test Xen with QEMU from upstream.
> Result are sent to xen-devel. But that might not be very useful for
> qemu-devel.
> 
> We also have a GitLab CI which does some Xen tests, but I don't think
> QEMU is tested there.
> https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=blob;f=automation/gitlab-ci/test.yaml;hb=HEAD
> https://gitlab.com/xen-project/xen/

QEMU (the version of QEMU picked by the Xen tools) is built but not used
in the Xen Project CI-loop yet.

I am extending the CI-loop with more tests [1], and I would like to have at
least one QEMU test at some point soon. Probably something based on Xen 9pfs.

[1] https://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=160627845825763