Revision as of 08:05, 7 October 2010

KVM-Autotest TODO list

Note: This session is for major, multi-person items. We'll update the status weekly based on the status of the subtasks attributed to persons.

Libvirt integration - Will hold on this work item for the next couple of months due to resource constraints.

Make cache=off the default for guest images
Multi host migration
Add a BLOCKED status on the autotest database, that tells the user that some feature testing was left out due to a problem on its dependencies.
Eventually get rid of all dependency on slirp/userspace networking to do any feature testing, since it is not a supported feature. Slipstreaming the kickstart in the install CD is a possibility, and it ends up being simpler than configuring an internal network thing for testing.
Make it possible to install virtio nw driver under windows xp/2003 guests without having to resort to the msi installer

Include support for host kernel install on the KVM default control file - Using autotest standard API to get it done
- needs to resolve bugs in boottool to full functionality

Make WHQL tests run on our internal server
Enable "guest-load" for a VMs before/while tests are running (e.g. migration of a VM, while a movie is playing on it)
- This may just be a matter of moving useful code from tests to kvm_test_utils.py to make it reusable
Post-commit review of new network patches (committed on Oct 10 2010)
Use more exceptions in utility functions:
- Add convenience functions to kvm_subprocess.py to make running shell commands shorter
- Add convenience functions to the VM class

Add docstrings to all functions that still lack them, including the ones in stepmaker.py, stepeditor.py and kvm_tests.py
Rename all Windows ISOs currently used to their official MSDN names
Fill the sections "Working with step files" and "Step file creation tips" in the wiki

Using dnsmasq in unattended_install to replace userspace network with private bridge
Bonding test
Add a new test: check if guest transmits packets when link is up/down

pxe boot * net types
Further migration
Multiple nics
multiple disks
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
Passthrough the perf keys of run_autotest to autotest server
Register the virtual machine into autotest server and run benchmark through autotest server

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 * Make WHQL tests run on our internal server
 * Enable "guest-load" for a VMs before/while tests are running (e.g. migration of a VM, while a movie is playing on it)
-* Add a way to shutdown the VMs when the whole job completes (compared to doing nothing or shutting-down after every test)
+** This may just be a matter of moving useful code from tests to kvm_test_utils.py to make it reusable
+* Post-commit review of new network patches (committed on Oct 10 2010)
+* Use more exceptions in utility functions:
+** Add convenience functions to kvm_subprocess.py to make running shell commands shorter
+** Add convenience functions to the VM class
+=== Very old, possibly no longer relevant ===
 * Add docstrings to all functions that still lack them, including the ones in stepmaker.py, stepeditor.py and kvm_tests.py
 * Rename all Windows ISOs currently used to their official MSDN names