KVM - User contributions [en]

StableABI

2010-03-02T05:58:32Z

Yzhou:

= Stable Guest ABI =

Allow guest virtual machines to be presented with the same ABI across QEMU upgrades.

= Detailed =
== Why is it useful? ==

Changing guest ABI can confuse or break guests.

This is particularly relevant for Windows guests where a guest ABI change may require Windows installs to be reactivated.

== How to run ==

libvirt takes care of it.

== How to test ==

Requirement: At least one guest image installed before executing this case.

1) Edit an existing guests configuration using virsh edit
2) Set the machine attribute to pc e.g.

<os>
<type arch='x86_64' machine='pc'>hvm</type>

3) Check the newly saved configuration using virsh dumpxml
4) Verify the machine attribute is now pc-0.11 e.g.

<os>
<type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-0)11'>hvm</type>

5) Start the guest and verify that it boots correctly as before.

== Potential migration issues ==
== Backward/forward compatibility issues ==
== Specific issues with some releases ==

= Test cases =

= Links =

For additional information, see [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KVM_Stable_Guest_ABI Features/KVM Stable Guest ABI] and
[https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KVM_Stable_PCI_Addresses Features/KVM Stable PCI Addresses]
on the [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Project_Wiki Fedora Project Wiki].

KVM-Autotest/TODO

2010-01-25T05:25:25Z

Yzhou:

= KVM-Autotest To-Do list =

== Framework ==

* Redirect guest monitor to serial and capture guest error messages written to console. Log the errors and also scan for specific problems (e.g. oops)
* Support an "expected to fail" param (at least in our html report)
* Log a gdb-backtrace for tests (executables) which generate a core dump file.
* Enable "guest-load" for a VMs before/while tests are running (e.g. migration of a VM, while a movie is playing on it) [Michael]
* Fail upon indentation/white-space problems in the configuration file
* Add a way to shutdown the VMs when the whole job completes (compared to doing nothing or shutting-down after every test) [Michael]
* Integrate the following code into the framework:

#!/usr/bin/python

import sys, os, re, random, ctypes, time

tasks = sys.argv[1:]

threads = [int(t)
for k in tasks
for t in os.listdir('/proc/%s/task' % (k,))]

cpus = [int(c[3:])
for c in os.listdir('/sys/devices/system/cpu')
if re.match(r'cpu[0-9]+', c)]

rand = random.Random()

sched_setaffinity = ctypes.CDLL('libc.so.6').sched_setaffinity

while True:
pid = rand.choice(threads)
cpu = rand.choice(cpus)
mask = 1 << cpu
sched_setaffinity(ctypes.c_int(pid), ctypes.c_size_t(4),
ctypes.byref(ctypes.c_int(mask)))
try:
time.sleep(0.01)
except:
break
* get the serial console information (BeiJing QE)
* Random generated macaddress and ifname (BeiJing QE)
* Postcommand for qemu-img check (BeiJing QE)

== Web Interface ==

* Integrate Dror Russo's patches [Lucas]

== Tests ==

=== Client Side Test ===

* Find out how to use Autotest's netperf test with guests [Yolkfull]
* If needed, write a netperf/iperf test [jasowang] [NEEDS MORE WORK]
* cpu hotplug [Lucas, DONE]
* pxe boot * net types [BeiJing QE]
* qcow1, qcow2, vmdk, vhd
* qcow2 internal snapshots
* Further migration [BeiJing QE]
* Multiple nics [BeiJing QE]
* multiple disks [BeiJing QE]
* ksm [jasowang, jzupka, ldoktor]
* -vga stg, nographics
* kvm unit-tests
* Add unattended guest installations (using kickstart or answer-files) [jasowang]
* kvm_install -- keep src and build directories under <kvm_autotest_root> instead of under kvm_runtest_2.
* Stable tsc test - http://people.redhat.com/mingo/time-warp-test/MINI-HOWTO [jasowang]
* Guest installation with pv-block device/driver (for both windows and Linux)
* savevm test [jasowang]
* Guests with large page support [jzupka, ldoktor]
* Verify SMBIOS/DMI data (UUID, for example) [Yolkfull]
* Disk serial number (for IDE, SCSI, VirtIO drives) [Yolkfull]
* Test block device cancellation path using device mapper to generate errors ( after we had a crash in de_write_dma_cb)
* Extend pci_assignable to support other PCI devices (USB, video cards, TV card etc)
* Different CPU flags support [BeiJing QE]
* Integrate the kvm unit test into kvm-autoteset [BeiJing QE]
* further vlan [BeiJing QE]
* ethtool test [BeiJing QE]
* Jumbo Frame test [BeiJing QE]
* Promisc Mode Nic test [BeiJing QE]
* Guest nic bonding test [BeiJing QE]
* Nic driver load/unload test [BeiJing QE]
* Ping test [BeiJing QE]
* Multicast test [BeiJing QE]
* Use private bridge and dnsmasq to do the unattended installation [BeiJing QE]
* Passthrough the perf keys of run_autotest to autotest server [BeiJing QE]

== Server Side Tests ==

* Run netperf test between two guests [Yolkfull]
* Migration with/without workload(dbench,lmbench etc) [Yolkfull] [Patch Sent,need review]
* Register the virtual machine into autotest server and run benchmark through autotest server [BeiJing QE]

== Misc ==

* Add docstrings to all functions that still lack them, including the ones in stepmaker.py, stepeditor.py and kvm_tests.py [Michael]
* Document the setupssh.iso and setuptelnet.iso creation procedures in the wiki
* Rename all Windows ISOs currently used to their official MSDN names
* Share all the stepmaker data somehow so other people can debug stepfiles
* Fill the sections "Working with step files" and "Step file creation tips" in the wiki [Michael]

== Bugs ==

* Please open bugs on the [[http://autotest.kernel.org/newticket autotest defect tracking system]]

KVM-Autotest/TODO

2009-12-07T07:01:40Z

Yzhou:

= KVM-Autotest To-Do list =

== Framework ==

* kickstart installation support [Lucas] [Nearly DONE]
* kvm-autotest auto resolve qemu-kvm backtraces
* Redirect guest monitor to serial and capture guest error messages written to console. Log the errors and also scan for specific problems (e.g. oops)
* Support an "expected to fail" param (at least in our html report)
* Log a gdb-backtrace for tests (executables) which generate a core dump file.
* Enable "guest-load" for a VMs before/while tests are running (e.g. migration of a VM, while a movie is playing on it) [Michael]
* Add support for kvm-trace.
* Fail upon indentation/white-space problems in the configuration file
* Add a way to shutdown the VMs when the whole job completes (compared to doing nothing or shutting-down after every test) [Michael]

== Tests ==

=== Client Side Test ===

* Find out how to use Autotest's netperf test with guests [Yolkfull]
* If needed, write a netperf/iperf test [jasowang] [NEEDS MORE WORK]
* cpu hotplug [Glauber]
* pxe boot * net types [jasowang]
* qcow1, qcow2, vmdk, vhd
* qcow2 internal snapshots
* Further migration [jasowang]
* Multiple nics [jasowang]
* multiple disks [Feng Yang]
* ksm [jasowang, jzupka, ldoktor]
* -vga stg, nographics
* kvm unit-tests
* Add unattended guest installations (using kickstart or answer-files) [jasowang]
* kvm_install -- keep src and build directories under <kvm_autotest_root> instead of under kvm_runtest_2.
* Stable tsc test - http://people.redhat.com/mingo/time-warp-test/MINI-HOWTO [jasowang]
* Guest installation with pv-block device/driver (for both windows and Linux)
* savevm test [jasowang]
* Guests with large page support [jzupka, ldoktor]
* Verify SMBIOS/DMI data (UUID, for example) [Yolkfull]
* Disk serial number (for IDE, SCSI, VirtIO drives) [Yolkfull]
* Test block device cancellation path using device mapper to generate errors ( after we had a crash in de_write_dma_cb)
* Pass through NICs / VFs to guest [Yolkfull]
* Different CPU flags support

=== Server Side Tests ===

* Run netperf test between two guests [Yolkfull]
* Migration with/without workload(dbench,lmbench etc) [Yolkfull] [Patch Sent,need review]

== Misc ==

* Add docstrings to all functions that still lack them, including the ones in stepmaker.py, stepeditor.py and kvm_tests.py [Michael]
* Document the setupssh.iso and setuptelnet.iso creation procedures in the wiki
* Rename all Windows ISOs currently used to their official MSDN names
* Share all the stepmaker data somehow so other people can debug stepfiles
* Fill the sections "Working with step files" and "Step file creation tips" in the wiki [Michael]

== Bugs ==

* Please open bugs on the [[http://autotest.kernel.org/newticket autotest defect tracking system]]

KVM-Autotest/TODO

2009-11-21T11:00:51Z

Yzhou:

= KVM-Autotest To-Do list =

== Framework ==

* kickstart installation support [Lucas] [Nearly DONE]
* kvm-autotest auto resolve qemu-kvm backtraces
* Redirect guest monitor to serial and capture guest error messages written to console. Log the errors and also scan for specific problems (e.g. oops)
* Support an "expected to fail" param (at least in our html report)
* Log a gdb-backtrace for tests (executables) which generate a core dump file.
* Enable "guest-load" for a VMs before/while tests are running (e.g. migration of a VM, while a movie is playing on it) [Michael]
* Add support for kvm-trace.
* Fail upon indentation/white-space problems in the configuration file
* Add a way to shutdown the VMs when the whole job completes (compared to doing nothing or shutting-down after every test) [Michael]

== Tests ==

=== Client Side Test ===

* Find out how to use Autotest's netperf test with guests [Yolkfull]
* If needed, write a netperf/iperf test [jasowang] [NEEDS MORE WORK]
* cpu hotplug [Glauber]
* pxe boot * net types [jasowang]
* qcow1, qcow2, vmdk, vhd
* qcow2 internal snapshots
* Further migration [jasowang]
* Multiple nics [jasowang]
* multiple disks [Feng Yang]
* ksm [jasowang, jzupka, ldoktor]
* -vga stg, nographics
* kvm unit-tests
* Add unattended guest installations (using kickstart or answer-files) [jasowang]
* kvm_install -- keep src and build directories under <kvm_autotest_root> instead of under kvm_runtest_2.
* Stable tsc test - http://people.redhat.com/mingo/time-warp-test/MINI-HOWTO [jasowang]
* Guest installation with pv-block device/driver (for both windows and Linux)
* savevm test [jasowang]
* Guests with large page support [jzupka, ldoktor]
* Verify SMBIOS/DMI data (UUID, for example) [Yolkfull]
* Disk serial number (for IDE, SCSI, VirtIO drives) [Yolkfull]
* Test block device cancellation path using device mapper to generate errors ( after we had a crash in de_write_dma_cb)
* Pass through NICs / VFs to guest [Yolkfull]
* Different CPU flags support

=== Server Side Tests ===

* Run netperf test between two guests [Yolkfull]
* Migration with/without workload(dbench,lmbench etc) [Yolkfull]

== Misc ==

* Add docstrings to all functions that still lack them, including the ones in stepmaker.py, stepeditor.py and kvm_tests.py [Michael]
* Document the setupssh.iso and setuptelnet.iso creation procedures in the wiki
* Rename all Windows ISOs currently used to their official MSDN names
* Share all the stepmaker data somehow so other people can debug stepfiles
* Fill the sections "Working with step files" and "Step file creation tips" in the wiki [Michael]

== Bugs ==

* Please open bugs on the [[http://autotest.kernel.org/newticket autotest defect tracking system]]

KVM-Autotest/TODO

2009-10-24T13:19:06Z

Yzhou:

= KVM-Autotest To-Do list =

== Framework ==

* kickstart installation support [Lucas] [Nearly DONE]
* kvm-autotest auto resolve qemu-kvm backtraces
* Redirect guest monitor to serial and capture guest error messages written to console. Log the errors and also scan for specific problems (e.g. oops)
* Support an "expected to fail" param (at least in our html report)
* Log a gdb-backtrace for tests (executables) which generate a core dump file.
* Enable "guest-load" for a VMs before/while tests are running (e.g. migration of a VM, while a movie is playing on it) [Michael]
* Add support for kvm-trace.
* Fail upon indentation/white-space problems in the configuration file
* Add a way to shutdown the VMs when the whole job completes (compared to doing nothing or shutting-down after every test) [Michael]

== Tests ==

=== Client Side Test ===

* Find out how to use Autotest's netperf test with guests [Yolkfull]
* If needed, write a netperf/iperf test [jasowang] [NEEDS MORE WORK]
* cpu hotplug [Glauber]
* pci net hot plug [Yolkfull]
* pci block hot plug [Yolkfull]
* pxe boot * net types [jasowang]
* qcow1, qcow2, vmdk, vhd
* qcow2 internal snapshots
* Further migration [jasowang]
* Multiple nics [jasowang]
* multiple disks [Feng Yang]
* ksm [jasowang, jzupka, ldoktor]
* -vga stg, nographics
* kvm unit-tests
* Add unattended guest installations (using kickstart or answer-files) [jasowang]
* kvm_install -- keep src and build directories under <kvm_autotest_root> instead of under kvm_runtest_2.
* Stable tsc test - http://people.redhat.com/mingo/time-warp-test/MINI-HOWTO [jasowang]
* Guest installation with pv-block device/driver (for both windows and Linux)
* savevm test [jasowang]
* Guests with large page support [jzupka, ldoktor]
* Verify SMBIOS/DMI data (UUID, for example) [Yolkfull]
* Disk serial number (for IDE, SCSI, VirtIO drives) [Yolkfull]
* Test block device cancellation path using device mapper to generate errors ( after we had a crash in de_write_dma_cb)
* Pass through NICs / VFs to guest [Yolkfull]
* Different CPU flags support

=== Server Side Tests ===

* Run netperf test between two guests [Yolkfull]
* Migration with/without workload(dbench,lmbench etc) [Yolkfull]

== Misc ==

* Add docstrings to all functions that still lack them, including the ones in stepmaker.py, stepeditor.py and kvm_tests.py [Michael]
* Document the setupssh.iso and setuptelnet.iso creation procedures in the wiki
* Rename all Windows ISOs currently used to their official MSDN names
* Share all the stepmaker data somehow so other people can debug stepfiles
* Fill the sections "Working with step files" and "Step file creation tips" in the wiki [Michael]

== Bugs ==

* Please open bugs on the [[http://autotest.kernel.org/newticket autotest defect tracking system]]

KVM-Autotest/TODO

2009-09-30T08:30:34Z

Yzhou:

= KVM-Autotest To-Do list =

== Framework ==

* kickstart installation support [Lucas] [Nearly DONE]
* kvm-autotest auto resolve qemu-kvm backtraces
* Redirect guest monitor to serial and capture guest error messages written to console. Log the errors and also scan for specific problems (e.g. oops)
* Support an "expected to fail" param (at least in our html report)
* Log a gdb-backtrace for tests (executables) which generate a core dump file.
* Enable "guest-load" for a VMs before/while tests are running (e.g. migration of a VM, while a movie is playing on it) [Michael]
* Add support for kvm-trace.
* Fail upon indentation/white-space problems in the configuration file
* Add a way to shutdown the VMs when the whole job completes (compared to doing nothing or shutting-down after every test) [Michael]

== Tests ==

=== Client Side Test ===

* Find out how to use Autotest's netperf test with guests [Yolkfull]
* If needed, write a netperf/iperf test [jasowang] [NEEDS MORE WORK]
* cpu hotplug [Glauber]
* pci net hot plug [Yolkfull]
* pci block hot plug [Yolkfull]
* pxe boot * net types [jasowang]
* qcow1, qcow2, vmdk, vhd
* qcow2 internal snapshots
* Further migration [jasowang]
* Multiple nics [jasowang]
* multiple disks [Feng Yang]
* ksm [jasowang, jzupka, ldoktor]
* -vga stg, nographics
* kvm unit-tests
* Add unattended guest installations (using kickstart or answer-files) [jasowang]
* kvm_install -- keep src and build directories under <kvm_autotest_root> instead of under kvm_runtest_2.
* Stable tsc test - http://people.redhat.com/mingo/time-warp-test/MINI-HOWTO [jasowang]
* Guest installation with pv-block device/driver (for both windows and Linux)
* savevm test [jasowang]
* Guests with large page support [jzupka, ldoktor]
* Verify SMBIOS/DMI data (UUID, for example) [Yolkfull]
* Disk serial number (for IDE, SCSI, VirtIO drives) [Yolkfull]
* Test block device cancellation path using device mapper to generate errors ( after we had a crash in de_write_dma_cb)
* Pass through NICs / VFs to guest [Yolkfull]
* Different CPU flags support
* Guest_S4 test [Yolkfull]

=== Server Side Tests ===

* Run netperf test between two guests [Yolkfull]
* Migration with/without workload(dbench,lmbench etc) [Yolkfull]

== Misc ==

* Add docstrings to all functions that still lack them, including the ones in stepmaker.py, stepeditor.py and kvm_tests.py [Michael]
* Document the setupssh.iso and setuptelnet.iso creation procedures in the wiki
* Rename all Windows ISOs currently used to their official MSDN names
* Share all the stepmaker data somehow so other people can debug stepfiles
* Fill the sections "Working with step files" and "Step file creation tips" in the wiki [Michael]

== Bugs ==

* Please open bugs on the [[http://autotest.kernel.org/newticket autotest defect tracking system]]

KVM-Autotest/TODO

2009-09-30T08:29:51Z

Yzhou:

= KVM-Autotest To-Do list =

== Framework ==

* kickstart installation support [Lucas] [Nearly DONE]
* kvm-autotest auto resolve qemu-kvm backtraces
* Redirect guest monitor to serial and capture guest error messages written to console. Log the errors and also scan for specific problems (e.g. oops)
* Support an "expected to fail" param (at least in our html report)
* Log a gdb-backtrace for tests (executables) which generate a core dump file.
* Enable "guest-load" for a VMs before/while tests are running (e.g. migration of a VM, while a movie is playing on it) [Michael]
* Add support for kvm-trace.
* Fail upon indentation/white-space problems in the configuration file
* Add a way to shutdown the VMs when the whole job completes (compared to doing nothing or shutting-down after every test) [Michael]

== Tests ==

=== Client Side Test ===

* Find out how to use Autotest's netperf test with guests [Yolkfull]
* If needed, write a netperf/iperf test [jasowang] [NEEDS MORE WORK]
* cpu hotplug [Glauber]
* pci net hot plug [Yolkfull]
* pci block hot plug [Yolkfull]
* pxe boot * net types [jasowang]
* qcow1, qcow2, vmdk, vhd
* qcow2 internal snapshots
* Further migration [jasowang]
* Multiple nics [jasowang]
* multiple disks [Feng Yang]
* ksm [jasowang, jzupka, ldoktor]
* -vga stg, nographics
* kvm unit-tests
* Add unattended guest installations (using kickstart or answer-files) [jasowang]
* kvm_install -- keep src and build directories under <kvm_autotest_root> instead of under kvm_runtest_2.
* Stable tsc test - http://people.redhat.com/mingo/time-warp-test/MINI-HOWTO [jasowang]
* Guest installation with pv-block device/driver (for both windows and Linux)
* savevm test [jasowang]
* Guests with large page support [jzupka, ldoktor]
* Verify SMBIOS/DMI data (UUID, for example) [Yolkfull]
* Disk serial number (for IDE, SCSI, VirtIO drives) [Yolkfull]
* Test block device cancellation path using device mapper to generate errors ( after we had a crash in de_write_dma_cb)
* Pass through NICs / VFs to guest [Yolkfull]
* Different CPU flags support
* Guest_S4 test[Yolkfull]

=== Server Side Tests ===

* Run netperf test between two guests [Yolkfull]
* Migration with/without workload(dbench,lmbench etc) [Yolkfull]

== Misc ==

* Add docstrings to all functions that still lack them, including the ones in stepmaker.py, stepeditor.py and kvm_tests.py [Michael]
* Document the setupssh.iso and setuptelnet.iso creation procedures in the wiki
* Rename all Windows ISOs currently used to their official MSDN names
* Share all the stepmaker data somehow so other people can debug stepfiles
* Fill the sections "Working with step files" and "Step file creation tips" in the wiki [Michael]

== Bugs ==

* Please open bugs on the [[http://autotest.kernel.org/newticket autotest defect tracking system]]

KVM-Autotest/TODO

2009-09-30T08:22:00Z

Yzhou:

= KVM-Autotest To-Do list =

== Framework ==

* kickstart installation support [Lucas] [Nearly DONE]
* kvm-autotest auto resolve qemu-kvm backtraces
* Redirect guest monitor to serial and capture guest error messages written to console. Log the errors and also scan for specific problems (e.g. oops)
* Support an "expected to fail" param (at least in our html report)
* Log a gdb-backtrace for tests (executables) which generate a core dump file.
* Enable "guest-load" for a VMs before/while tests are running (e.g. migration of a VM, while a movie is playing on it) [Michael]
* Add support for kvm-trace.
* Fail upon indentation/white-space problems in the configuration file
* Add a way to shutdown the VMs when the whole job completes (compared to doing nothing or shutting-down after every test) [Michael]

== Tests ==

=== Client Side Test ===

* Find out how to use Autotest's netperf test with guests [Yolkfull]
* If needed, write a netperf/iperf test [jasowang] [NEEDS MORE WORK]
* cpu hotplug [Glauber]
* pci net hot plug [Yolkfull]
* pci block hot plug [Yolkfull]
* pxe boot * net types [jasowang]
* qcow1, qcow2, vmdk, vhd
* qcow2 internal snapshots
* Further migration [jasowang]
* Multiple nics [jasowang]
* multiple disks [Feng Yang]
* ksm [jasowang, jzupka, ldoktor]
* -vga stg, nographics
* kvm unit-tests
* Add unattended guest installations (using kickstart or answer-files) [jasowang]
* kvm_install -- keep src and build directories under <kvm_autotest_root> instead of under kvm_runtest_2.
* Stable tsc test - http://people.redhat.com/mingo/time-warp-test/MINI-HOWTO [jasowang]
* Guest installation with pv-block device/driver (for both windows and Linux)
* savevm test [jasowang]
* Guests with large page support [jzupka, ldoktor]
* Verify SMBIOS/DMI data (UUID, for example) [Yolkfull]
* Disk serial number (for IDE, SCSI, VirtIO drives) [Yolkfull]
* Test block device cancellation path using device mapper to generate errors ( after we had a crash in de_write_dma_cb)
* Pass through NICs / VFs to guest [Yolkfull]
* Different CPU flags support
* Guest_S4 test[Yolkfull]

=== Server Side Tests ===

* Run server-side netperf test between two guests [Yolkfull]
* Server-side migration with/without workload(dbench,lmbench etc) [Yolkfull]

== Misc ==

* Add docstrings to all functions that still lack them, including the ones in stepmaker.py, stepeditor.py and kvm_tests.py [Michael]
* Document the setupssh.iso and setuptelnet.iso creation procedures in the wiki
* Rename all Windows ISOs currently used to their official MSDN names
* Share all the stepmaker data somehow so other people can debug stepfiles
* Fill the sections "Working with step files" and "Step file creation tips" in the wiki [Michael]

== Bugs ==

* Please open bugs on the [[http://autotest.kernel.org/newticket autotest defect tracking system]]

KVM-Autotest/TODO

2009-09-30T08:15:12Z

Yzhou:

= KVM-Autotest To-Do list =

== Framework ==

* kickstart installation support [Lucas] [Nearly DONE]
* kvm-autotest auto resolve qemu-kvm backtraces
* Redirect guest monitor to serial and capture guest error messages written to console. Log the errors and also scan for specific problems (e.g. oops)
* Support an "expected to fail" param (at least in our html report)
* Log a gdb-backtrace for tests (executables) which generate a core dump file.
* Enable "guest-load" for a VMs before/while tests are running (e.g. migration of a VM, while a movie is playing on it) [Michael]
* Add support for kvm-trace.
* Fail upon indentation/white-space problems in the configuration file
* Add a way to shutdown the VMs when the whole job completes (compared to doing nothing or shutting-down after every test) [Michael]

== Tests ==

= Client-side =

* Find out how to use Autotest's netperf test with guests [Yolkfull]
* If needed, write a netperf/iperf test [jasowang] [NEEDS MORE WORK]
* cpu hotplug [Glauber]
* pci net hot plug [Yolkfull]
* pci block hot plug [Yolkfull]
* pxe boot * net types [jasowang]
* qcow1, qcow2, vmdk, vhd
* qcow2 internal snapshots
* Further migration [jasowang]
* Multiple nics [jasowang]
* multiple disks [Feng Yang]
* ksm [jasowang, jzupka, ldoktor]
* -vga stg, nographics
* kvm unit-tests
* Add unattended guest installations (using kickstart or answer-files) [jasowang]
* kvm_install -- keep src and build directories under <kvm_autotest_root> instead of under kvm_runtest_2.
* Stable tsc test - http://people.redhat.com/mingo/time-warp-test/MINI-HOWTO [jasowang]
* Guest installation with pv-block device/driver (for both windows and Linux)
* savevm test [jasowang]
* Guests with large page support [jzupka, ldoktor]
* Verify SMBIOS/DMI data (UUID, for example) [Yolkfull]
* Disk serial number (for IDE, SCSI, VirtIO drives) [Yolkfull]
* Test block device cancellation path using device mapper to generate errors ( after we had a crash in de_write_dma_cb)
* Pass through NICs / VFs to guest [Yolkfull]
* Different CPU flags support
* Guest_S4 test[Yolkfull]

= Server-side =

* Run server-side netperf test between two guests [Yolkfull]
* Server-side migration with/without workload(dbench,lmbench etc) [Yolkfull]

== Misc ==

* Add docstrings to all functions that still lack them, including the ones in stepmaker.py, stepeditor.py and kvm_tests.py [Michael]
* Document the setupssh.iso and setuptelnet.iso creation procedures in the wiki
* Rename all Windows ISOs currently used to their official MSDN names
* Share all the stepmaker data somehow so other people can debug stepfiles
* Fill the sections "Working with step files" and "Step file creation tips" in the wiki [Michael]

== Bugs ==

* Please open bugs on the [[http://autotest.kernel.org/newticket autotest defect tracking system]]

KVM-Autotest/TODO

2009-09-30T07:49:33Z

Yzhou:

= KVM-Autotest To-Do list =

== Framework ==

* kickstart installation support [Lucas] [Nearly DONE]
* kvm-autotest auto resolve qemu-kvm backtraces
* Redirect guest monitor to serial and capture guest error messages written to console. Log the errors and also scan for specific problems (e.g. oops)
* Support an "expected to fail" param (at least in our html report)
* Log a gdb-backtrace for tests (executables) which generate a core dump file.
* Enable "guest-load" for a VMs before/while tests are running (e.g. migration of a VM, while a movie is playing on it) [Michael]
* Add support for kvm-trace.
* Fail upon indentation/white-space problems in the configuration file
* Add a way to shutdown the VMs when the whole job completes (compared to doing nothing or shutting-down after every test) [Michael]

== Tests ==

* Find out how to use Autotest's netperf test with guests [Yolkfull]
* If needed, write a netperf/iperf test [jasowang] [NEEDS MORE WORK]
* cpu hotplug [Glauber]
* pci net hot plug [Yolkfull]
* pci block hot plug [Yolkfull]
* pxe boot * net types [jasowang]
* qcow1, qcow2, vmdk, vhd
* qcow2 internal snapshots
* Further migration [jasowang]
* Multiple nics [jasowang]
* multiple disks
* ksm [jasowang, jzupka, ldoktor]
* -vga stg, nographics
* kvm unit-tests
* Add unattended guest installations (using kickstart or answer-files) [jasowang]
* kvm_install -- keep src and build directories under <kvm_autotest_root> instead of under kvm_runtest_2.
* Stable tsc test - http://people.redhat.com/mingo/time-warp-test/MINI-HOWTO [jasowang]
* Guest installation with pv-block device/driver (for both windows and Linux)
* savevm test [jasowang]
* Guests with large page support [jzupka, ldoktor]
* Verify SMBIOS/DMI data (UUID, for example) [Yolkfull]
* Disk serial number (for IDE, SCSI, VirtIO drives) [Yolkfull]
* Test block device cancellation path using device mapper to generate errors ( after we had a crash in de_write_dma_cb)
* Pass through NICs / VFs to guest [Yolkfull]
* Different CPU flags support
* Guest_S4 [Yolkfull]

== Misc ==

* Add docstrings to all functions that still lack them, including the ones in stepmaker.py, stepeditor.py and kvm_tests.py [Michael]
* Document the setupssh.iso and setuptelnet.iso creation procedures in the wiki
* Rename all Windows ISOs currently used to their official MSDN names
* Share all the stepmaker data somehow so other people can debug stepfiles
* Fill the sections "Working with step files" and "Step file creation tips" in the wiki [Michael]

== Bugs ==

* Please open bugs on the [[http://autotest.kernel.org/newticket autotest defect tracking system]]

KVM-Autotest/TODO

2009-09-01T08:29:37Z

Yzhou:

= KVM-Autotest To-Do list =

== Framework ==

* <s>Verify MD5 sum of ISO image before starting a VM</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* <s>Enable multiple user controlled port redirections (with -redir)</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* <s>Implement functions to translate VM ports and addresses (e.g. VM.get_port(), VM.get_address())</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* <s>Support TAP networking with a user specified MAC address for each NIC</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* <s>Add <tt>display</tt> parameter to enable user control of the QEMU display method (VNC/SDL/nographic)</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* <s>Implement VM.clone() -- to be used by tests that need to add new VMs by themselves</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* kickstart installation support
* kvm-autotest auto resolve qemu-kvm backtraces
* <s>Make sure ppm_utils.image_crop() handles bad input properly</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* <s>Enable tests to modify a VM's params (while it's down)</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* <s>Make tests shorter by using small utility functions that fail a test and display a failure message</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* <s>Improve the stepmaker data naming system (e.g. name PPM files according to their MD5 sums)</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* Redirect guest monitor to serial and capture guest error messages written to console. Log the errors and also scan for specific problems (e.g. oops)
* Support an "expected to fail" param (at least in our html report)
* Log a gdb-backtrace for tests (executables) which generate a core dump file.
* Enable "guest-load" for a VMs before/while tests are running (e.g. migration of a VM, while a movie is playing on it) [Michael]
* Add support for kvm-trace.
* Fail upon indentation/white-space problems in the configuration file
* Add a way to shutdown the VMs when the whole job completes (compared to doing nothing or shutting-down after every test) [Michael]
* <s>Implement <tt>include</tt> functionality in the config file parser</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* <s>Implement kvm_spawn.get_command_status_output() to make sending SSH commands easier</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* <s>Config file parser: enable selective modification of parameters based on regular expressions, e.g. mem.* ?= 256</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* <s>Support running user specified pre-job, post-job, pre-test and post-test scripts</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* <s>Make Step Editor accept a filename command line argument</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* <s>When running step files, detect frozen (stuck) guests even in the presence of a blinking cursor</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* Support running tests in parallel with multiple queues for each host [Michael]
* <s>Automatically convert PPM images in debug dirs to PNG format to save space</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* <s>Automatically assign a UUID to a VM (use the '-uuid' QEMU parameter). Once assigned, should be used in all dependent tests.</s> [jasowang] [DONE]
* <s>Automatically assign a MAC address to a NIC. Once assigned, should be used in all dependent tests.</s> [jasowang] [DONE]
* <s>Allow run_bg to track a child process's stdin and stderr even after the parent process has exited; achieved by merging run_bg with kvm_spawn</s> [Michael] [DONE]

== Tests ==

* Find out how to use Autotest's netperf test with guests [Yolkfull]
* If needed, write a netperf/iperf test [jasowang] [NEEDS MORE WORK]
* <s>Write a time drift test (pic/apic/pm_timer)</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* <s>Write a test which adds VMs until one of them becomes unresponsive, and records the maximum number of VMs successfully started</s> [Yolkfull] [ALREADY DONE]
* cpu hotplug [Glauber]
* pci net hot plug [Yolkfull]
* pci block hot plug [Yolkfull]
* <s>s3 hibernation</s> [Gleb] [DONE]
* <s>tap networking</s> [jasowang] [DONE]
* pxe boot * net types [jasowang]
* qcow1, qcow2, vmdk, vhd
* qcow2 internal snapshots
* <s>Run autotest tests inside Linux guest</s> [Michael] [ALREADY DONE]
* Further migration [jasowang]
* Multiple nics [jasowang]
* multiple disks
* ksm [jasowang, jzupka, ldoktor]
* -vga stg, nographics
* kvm unit-tests
* Add unattended guest installations (using kickstart or answer-files) [jasowang]
* kvm_install -- keep src and build directories under <kvm_autotest_root> instead of under kvm_runtest_2.
* Stable tsc test - http://people.redhat.com/mingo/time-warp-test/MINI-HOWTO
* Guest installation with pv-block device/driver (for both windows and Linux)
* savevm test [jasowang]
* Guests with large page support [jzupka, ldoktor]
* Verify SMBIOS/DMI data (UUID, for example) [Yolkfull]
* Disk serial number (for IDE, SCSI, VirtIO drives) [Yolkfull]
* Test block device cancellation path using device mapper to generate errors ( after we had a crash in de_write_dma_cb)
* Pass through NICs / VFs to guest [Yolkfull]

== Misc ==

* <s>Goal -- get accepted into upstream autotest</s> [DONE]
* Add docstrings to all functions that still lack them, including the ones in stepmaker.py, stepeditor.py and kvm_tests.py [Michael]
* <s>Add module headers and docstrings</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* Document the setupssh.iso and setuptelnet.iso creation procedures in the wiki
* Rename all Windows ISOs currently used to their official MSDN names
* <s>Move Windows-setup iso images into the windows directory.</s> [DONE]
* Share all the stepmaker data somehow so other people can debug stepfiles
* Fill the sections "Working with step files" and "Step file creation tips" in the wiki [Michael]
* <s>Document the kvm_install test in the "Tests" section of the wiki</s>

== Bugs ==

* <s>Step Maker/Step Editor: fix the GDK MemoryError problem (do not pass gtk.gdk.pixbuf_new_from_data() a 0x0 pixmap even if a ppm file contains one)</s> [DONE]

User:Yzhou

2009-08-11T03:23:41Z

Yzhou:

Patches working on:

1. params_verify [codes finished, debugging]
Verify all parameters in KVM command line:
1) Log into the guest
2) Verify whether cpu counts ,memory size, nics' model,
count and drives' format & count, drive_serial, UUID
3) Verify all nic cards' macaddr

2. pci_hotplug [codes finished, debugging]
Test pci devices' hotplug
1) pci_add a deivce (nic or storage)
2) Compare 'info pci' output
3) Compare 'reference_cmd' output
4) Verify whether pci_model is shown in 'pci_find_cmd'
5) Check whether the newly added pci device works fine
6) pci_del the device, verify whether could remove the pci device

3. run autotest's netperf on two guests [codes finished, debugging]
Run netperf2 on two guests:
1) start two guests, one as client while the other is server
2) run netserver on server guest using control.server
3) run netperf on client guest using control.client

4. framework problem
1) kvm_preprocess.py to deal with multiple images ( create multiple images and specify 'force_create_image')
2) kvm_subprocess often create multiple process, reach limit connections of windows telnet

User:Yzhou

2009-07-21T06:20:15Z

Yzhou: Patches yzhou is working on

User:Yzhou

2009-07-21T06:03:16Z

Yzhou: Patches that yzhou is working on

Patches working on:

1. params_verify
Verify all parameters in KVM command line:
1) Log into the guest
2) Verify whether cpu counts ,memory size, nics' model,
count and drives' format & count, drive_serial, UUID
3) Verify all nic cards' macaddr

2. pci_hotplug
Test pci devices' hotplug
1) pci_add a deivce (nic or storage)
2) Compare 'info pci' output
3) Compare 'reference_cmd' output
4) Verify whether pci_model is shown in 'pci_find_cmd'
5) Check whether the newly added pci device works fine
6) pci_del the device, verify whether could remove the pci device

3. run autotest's netperf on two guests
Run netperf2 on two guests:
1) start two guests, one as client while the other is server
2) run netserver on server guest using control.server
3) run netperf on client guest using control.client

User:Yzhou

2009-07-21T05:24:07Z

Yzhou: Status

Patches working on:

1) params_verify

2) pci_hotplug

3) run autotest's netperf on two guests

KVM-Autotest/TODO

2009-07-07T05:44:15Z

Yzhou:

= KVM-Autotest To-Do list =

== Framework ==

* <s>Verify MD5 sum of ISO image before starting a VM</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* <s>Enable multiple user controlled port redirections (with -redir)</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* <s>Implement functions to translate VM ports and addresses (e.g. VM.get_port(), VM.get_address())</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* Support TAP networking with a user specified MAC address for each NIC [Michael]
* <s>Add <tt>display</tt> parameter to enable user control of the QEMU display method (VNC/SDL/nographic)</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* <s>Implement VM.clone() -- to be used by tests that need to add new VMs by themselves</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* kickstart installation support
* kvm-autotest auto resolve qemu-kvm backtraces
* <s>Make sure ppm_utils.image_crop() handles bad input properly</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* Enable tests to modify a VM's params (while it's down) [Michael]
* Make tests shorter by using small utility functions that fail a test and display a failure message [Michael]
* <s>Improve the stepmaker data naming system (e.g. name PPM files according to their MD5 sums)</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* Redirect guest monitor to serial and capture guest error messages written to console. Log the errors and also scan for specific problems (e.g. oops)
* Support an "expected to fail" param (at least in our html report)
* Log a gdb-backtrace for tests (executables) which generate a core dump file.
* Enable "guest-load" for a VMs before/while tests are running (e.g. migration of a VM, while a movie is playing on it) [Michael]
* Add support for kvm-trace.
* Fail upon indentation/white-space problems in the configuration file
* Add a way to shutdown the VMs when the whole job completes (compared to doing nothing or shutting-down after every test) [Michael]
* <s>Implement <tt>include</tt> functionality in the config file parser</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* <s>Implement kvm_spawn.get_command_status_output() to make sending SSH commands easier</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* Config file parser: enable selective modification of parameters based on regular expressions, e.g. mem.* ?= 256 [Michael]
* Support running user specified pre-job, post-job, pre-test and post-test scripts [Michael]
* <s>Make Step Editor accept a filename command line argument</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* <s>When running step files, detect frozen (stuck) guests even in the presence of a blinking cursor</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* Support running tests in parallel with multiple queues for each host [Michael]
* Automatically convert PPM images in debug dirs to PNG format to save space [Michael]
* Automatically assign a UUID to a VM (use the '-uuid' QEMU parameter). Once assigned, should be used in all dependent tests. [jasowang]
* Automatically assign a MAC address to a NIC. Once assigned, should be used in all dependent tests. [jasowang]
* <s>Allow run_bg to track a child process's stdin and stderr even after the parent process has exited; achieved by merging run_bg with kvm_spawn</s> [Michael] [DONE]

== Tests ==

* Find out how to use Autotest's netperf test with guests [Yolkfull]
* If needed, write a netperf/iperf test [jasowang] [NEEDS MORE WORK]
* Write a time drift test (pic/apic/pm_timer)
* <s>Write a test which adds VMs until one of them becomes unresponsive, and records the maximum number of VMs successfully started</s> [Yolkfull] [ALREADY DONE]
* cpu hotplug [Glauber]
* pci net hot plug [Yolkfull]
* pci block hot plug [Yolkfull]
* <s>s3 hibernation</s> [Gleb] [DONE]
* tap networking [jasowang]
* pxe boot * net types [jasowang]
* qcow1, qcow2, vmdk, vhd
* qcow2 internal snapshots
* <s>Run autotest tests inside Linux guest</s> [Michael] [ALREADY DONE]
* Further migration [jasowang]
* Multiple nics [jasowang]
* multiple disks
* ksm [jasowang, jzupka, ldoktor]
* -vga stg, nographics
* kvm unit-tests
* Add unattended guest installations (using kickstart or answer-files) [jasowang]
* kvm_install -- keep src and build directories under <kvm_autotest_root> instead of under kvm_runtest_2.
* Stable tsc test - http://people.redhat.com/mingo/time-warp-test/MINI-HOWTO
* Guest installation with pv-block device/driver (for both windows and Linux)
* savevm test [jasowang]
* Guests with large page support [jzupka, ldoktor]
* Verify SMBIOS/DMI data (UUID, for example) [Yolkfull]
* Disk serial number (for IDE, SCSI, VirtIO drives) [Yolkfull]
* Test block device cancellation path using device mapper to generate errors ( after we had a crash in de_write_dma_cb)

== Misc ==

* <s>Goal -- get accepted into upstream autotest</s> [DONE]
* Add docstrings to all functions that still lack them, including the ones in stepmaker.py, stepeditor.py and kvm_tests.py [Michael]
* Add module headers and docstrings [Michael]
* Document the setupssh.iso and setuptelnet.iso creation procedures in the wiki
* Rename all Windows ISOs currently used to their official MSDN names
* <s>Move Windows-setup iso images into the windows directory.</s> [DONE]
* Share all the stepmaker data somehow so other people can debug stepfiles
* Fill the sections "Working with step files" and "Step file creation tips" in the wiki [Michael]
* <s>Document the kvm_install test in the "Tests" section of the wiki</s>

== Bugs ==

* <s>Step Maker/Step Editor: fix the GDK MemoryError problem (do not pass gtk.gdk.pixbuf_new_from_data() a 0x0 pixmap even if a ppm file contains one)</s> [DONE]

KVM-Autotest/TODO

2009-06-30T14:33:11Z

Yzhou:

= KVM-Autotest To-Do list =

== Framework ==

* <s>Verify MD5 sum of ISO image before starting a VM</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* <s>Enable multiple user controlled port redirections (with -redir)</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* <s>Implement functions to translate VM ports and addresses (e.g. VM.get_port(), VM.get_address())</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* Support TAP networking with a user specified MAC address for each NIC [Michael]
* <s>Add <tt>display</tt> parameter to enable user control of the QEMU display method (VNC/SDL/nographic)</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* Implement VM.clone() -- to be used by tests that need to add new VMs by themselves [Michael]
* kickstart installation support
* kvm-autotest auto resolve qemu-kvm backtraces
* <s>Make sure ppm_utils.image_crop() handles bad input properly</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* Enable tests to modify a VM's params (while it's down) [Michael]
* Make tests shorter by using small utility functions that fail a test and display a failure message [Michael]
* <s>Improve the stepmaker data naming system (e.g. name PPM files according to their MD5 sums)</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* Redirect guest monitor to serial and capture guest error messages written to console. Log the errors and also scan for specific problems (e.g. oops)
* Support an "expected to fail" param (at least in our html report)
* Log a gdb-backtrace for tests (executables) which generate a core dump file.
* Enable "guest-load" for a VMs before/while tests are running (e.g. migration of a VM, while a movie is playing on it) [Michael]
* Add support for kvm-trace.
* Fail upon indentation/white-space problems in the configuration file
* Add a way to shutdown the VMs when the whole job completes (compared to doing nothing or shutting-down after every test) [Michael]
* <s>Implement <tt>include</tt> functionality in the config file parser</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* <s>Implement kvm_spawn.get_command_status_output() to make sending SSH commands easier</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* Config file parser: enable selective modification of parameters based on regular expressions, e.g. mem.* ?= 256 [Michael]
* Support running user specified pre-job, post-job, pre-test and post-test scripts [Michael]
* <s>Make Step Editor accept a filename command line argument</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* <s>When running step files, detect frozen (stuck) guests even in the presence of a blinking cursor</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* Support running tests in parallel with multiple queues for each host [Michael]
* Automatically convert PPM images in debug dirs to PNG format to save space [Michael]
* Automatically assign a UUID to a VM (use the '-uuid' QEMU parameter). Once assigned, should be used in all dependent tests. [jasowang]
* Automatically assign a MAC address to a NIC. Once assigned, should be used in all dependent tests. [jasowang]
* <s>Allow run_bg to track a child process's stdin and stderr even after the parent process has exited; achieved by merging run_bg with kvm_spawn</s> [Michael] [DONE]

== Tests ==

* Find out how to use Autotest's netperf test with guests [Yolkfull]
* If needed, write a netperf/iperf test [jasowang]
* Write a time drift test (pic/apic/pm_timer)
* <s>Write a test which adds VMs until one of them becomes unresponsive, and records the maximum number of VMs successfully started</s> [Yolkfull] [ALREADY DONE]
* cpu hotplug [Glauber]
* pci net hot plug [Yolkfull]
* pci block hot plug [Yolkfull]
* <s>s3 hibernation</s> [Gleb] [DONE]
* tap networking [jasowang]
* pxe boot * net types [jasowang]
* qcow1, qcow2, vmdk, vhd
* qcow2 internal snapshots
* <s>Run autotest tests inside Linux guest</s> [Michael] [ALREADY DONE]
* Further migration [jasowang]
* Multiple nics [jasowang]
* multiple disks
* ksm [jasowang, jzupka, ldoktor]
* -vga stg, nographics
* kvm unit-tests
* Add unattended guest installations (using kickstart or answer-files) [jasowang]
* kvm_install -- keep src and build directories under <kvm_autotest_root> instead of under kvm_runtest_2.
* Stable tsc test - http://people.redhat.com/mingo/time-warp-test/MINI-HOWTO
* Guest installation with pv-block device/driver (for both windows and Linux)
* savevm test [jasowang]
* Guests with large page support [jzupka, ldoktor]
* Verify SMBIOS/DMI data (UUID, for example)
* Disk serial number (for IDE, SCSI, VirtIO drives)
* Test block device cancellation path using device mapper to generate errors ( after we had a crash in de_write_dma_cb)

== Misc ==

* Goal -- get accepted into upstream autotest
* Add docstrings to all functions that still lack them, including the ones in stepmaker.py, stepeditor.py and kvm_tests.py [Michael]
* Add module headers and docstrings [Michael]
* Document the setupssh.iso and setuptelnet.iso creation procedures in the wiki
* Rename all Windows ISOs currently used to their official MSDN names
* <s>Move Windows-setup iso images into the windows directory.</s> [DONE]
* Share all the stepmaker data somehow so other people can debug stepfiles
* Fill the sections "Working with step files" and "Step file creation tips" in the wiki [Michael]
* Document the kvm_install test in the "Tests" section of the wiki

== Bugs ==

* <s>Step Maker/Step Editor: fix the GDK MemoryError problem (do not pass gtk.gdk.pixbuf_new_from_data() a 0x0 pixmap even if a ppm file contains one)</s> [DONE]

KVM-Autotest/TODO

2009-06-23T08:27:36Z

Yzhou:

= KVM-Autotest To-Do list =

== Framework ==

* <s>Verify MD5 sum of ISO image before starting a VM</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* <s>Enable multiple user controlled port redirections (with -redir)</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* <s>Implement functions to translate VM ports and addresses (e.g. VM.get_port(), VM.get_address())</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* Support TAP networking with a user specified MAC address for each NIC [Michael]
* <s>Add <tt>display</tt> parameter to enable user control of the QEMU display method (VNC/SDL/nographic)</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* Implement VM.clone() -- to be used by tests that need to add new VMs by themselves [Michael]
* kickstart installation support
* kvm-autotest auto resolve qemu-kvm backtraces
* <s>Make sure ppm_utils.image_crop() handles bad input properly</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* Enable tests to modify a VM's params (while it's down) [Michael]
* Make tests shorter by using small utility functions that fail a test and display a failure message [Michael]
* <s>Improve the stepmaker data naming system (e.g. name PPM files according to their MD5 sums)</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* Redirect guest monitor to serial and capture guest error messages written to console. Log the errors and also scan for specific problems (e.g. oops)
* Support an "expected to fail" param (at least in our html report)
* Log a gdb-backtrace for tests (executables) which generate a core dump file.
* Enable "guest-load" for a VMs before/while tests are running (e.g. migration of a VM, while a movie is playing on it) [Michael]
* Add support for kvm-trace.
* Fail upon indentation/white-space problems in the configuration file
* Add a way to shutdown the VMs when the whole job completes (compared to doing nothing or shutting-down after every test) [Michael]
* <s>Implement <tt>include</tt> functionality in the config file parser</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* <s>Implement kvm_spawn.get_command_status_output() to make sending SSH commands easier</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* Config file parser: enable selective modification of parameters based on regular expressions, e.g. mem.* ?= 256 [Michael]
* Support running user specified pre-job, post-job, pre-test and post-test scripts [Michael]
* <s>Make Step Editor accept a filename command line argument</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* <s>When running step files, detect frozen (stuck) guests even in the presence of a blinking cursor</s> [Michael] [DONE]
* Support running tests in parallel with multiple queues for each host [Michael]
* Automatically convert PPM images in debug dirs to PNG format to save space [Michael]
* Automatically assign a UUID to a VM (use the '-uuid' QEMU parameter). Once assigned, should be used in all dependent tests. [jasowang]
* Automatically assign a MAC address to a NIC. Once assigned, should be used in all dependent tests. [jasowang]
* <s>Allow run_bg to track a child process's stdin and stderr even after the parent process has exited; achieved by merging run_bg with kvm_spawn</s> [Michael] [DONE]

== Tests ==

* Find out how to use Autotest's netperf test with guests [jasowang]
* If needed, write a netperf/iperf test [jasowang]
* Write a time drift test (pic/apic/pm_timer)
* Write a test which adds VMs until one of them becomes unresponsive, and records the maximum number of VMs successfully started. [Yolkfull] [ALREADY DONE]
* cpu hotplug [Glauber]
* pci net hot plug [Glauber]
* pci block hot plug [Glauber]
* <s>s3 hibernation</s> [Gleb] [DONE]
* tap networking [jasowang]
* pxe boot * net types [jasowang]
* qcow1, qcow2, vmdk, vhd
* qcow2 internal snapshots
* <s>Run autotest tests inside Linux guest</s> [Michael] [ALREADY DONE]
* Further migration [jasowang]
* Multiple nics [jasowang]
* multiple disks
* ksm [jasowang, jzupka, ldoktor]
* -vga stg, nographics
* kvm unit-tests
* Add unattended guest installations (using kickstart or answer-files) [jasowang]
* kvm_install -- keep src and build directories under <kvm_autotest_root> instead of under kvm_runtest_2.
* Stable tsc test - http://people.redhat.com/mingo/time-warp-test/MINI-HOWTO
* Guest installation with pv-block device/driver (for both windows and Linux)
* savevm test [jasowang]
* Guests with large page support [jzupka, ldoktor]
* Verify SMBIOS/DMI data (UUID, for example)
* Disk serial number (for IDE, SCSI, VirtIO drives)

== Misc ==

* Goal -- get accepted into upstream autotest
* Add docstrings to all functions that still lack them, including the ones in stepmaker.py, stepeditor.py and kvm_tests.py [Michael]
* Add module headers and docstrings [Michael]
* Document the setupssh.iso and setuptelnet.iso creation procedures in the wiki
* Rename all Windows ISOs currently used to their official MSDN names
* <s>Move Windows-setup iso images into the windows directory.</s> [DONE]
* Share all the stepmaker data somehow so other people can debug stepfiles
* Fill the sections "Working with step files" and "Step file creation tips" in the wiki [Michael]
* Document the kvm_install test in the "Tests" section of the wiki

== Bugs ==

* <s>Step Maker/Step Editor: fix the GDK MemoryError problem (do not pass gtk.gdk.pixbuf_new_from_data() a 0x0 pixmap even if a ppm file contains one)</s> [DONE]