KVM-Autotest/TODO

KVM-Autotest To-Do list

Framework

• Verify MD5 sum of ISO image before starting a VM [DONE]
• Enable multiple user controlled port redirections (with -redir) [DONE]
• Implement functions to translate VM ports and addresses (e.g. VM.get_port(), VM.get_address()) [DONE]
• Support TAP networking with a user specified MAC address for each NIC
• Add display parameter to enable user control of the QEMU display method (VNC/SDL/nographic) [DONE]
• Implement VM.clone() -- to be used by tests that need to add new VMs by themselves
• kickstart installation support
• kvm-autotest auto resolve qemu-kvm backtraces
• Make sure ppm_utils.image_crop() handles bad input properly
• Enable tests to modify a VM's params (while it's down)
• Make tests shorter by using small utility functions that fail a test and display a failure message
• Improve the stepmaker data naming system (e.g. name PPM files according to their MD5 sums)
• Redirect guest monitor to serial and capture guest error messages written to console
• 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)
• Add support for kvm-trace.
• Ignore, Warn, or even 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 shuting-down after every test).

Tests

• Find out how to use Autotest's netperf test with guests
• If needed, write a netperf/iperf test
• Write a time drift test
• Write a test which adds VMs until one of them becomes unresponsive, and records the maximum number of VMs successfully started.
• cpu hotplug - Glauber
• pci net hot plug -Glauber
• pci block hot plug -Glauber
• s3 hibernation - Gleb
• tap networking
• pxe boot * net types
• qcow1, qcow2, vmdk, vhd
• qcow2 internal snapshots
• Run autotest tests inside Linux guest [ALREADY DONE]
• Further migration
• Multiple nics
• ksm
• -vga stg, nographics
• kvm unit-tests
• Add unattended guest installations (using kickstart or answer-files)
• kvm_install -- keep src and build directories under <kvm_autotest_root> instead of under kvm_runtest_2.
• time drift test (pic/apic/pm_timer)
• Stable tsc test - http://people.redhat.com/mingo/time-warp-test/MINI-HOWTO

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
• Add module headers and docstrings
• Document the setupssh.iso and setuptelnet.iso creation procedures in the wiki
• Rename all Windows ISOs currently used to their official MSDN names
• Move Windows-setup iso images into the windows directory.
• 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
• Document the kvm_install test in the "Tests" section of the wiki

Bugs

None so far?