KVM-Autotest/TODO

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 [autotest defect tracking system]