KVM-Autotest/TODO
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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
- 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
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]