From: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
peter.maydell@linaro.org, vsementsov@virtuozzo.com,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-block@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iotests: Revert emulator selection to old behaviour
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2021 14:56:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210202145627.GM4168502@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48115c56-66cc-3f94-316c-95a9f64879a7@redhat.com>
On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 03:46:11PM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 2/2/21 3:28 PM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> > If the qemu-system-{arch} binary for the host architecture can't be
> > found, the old 'check' implementation selected the alphabetically first
> > system emulator binary that it could find. The new Python implementation
> > just uses the first result of glob.iglob(), which has an undefined
> > order.
> >
> > This is a problem that breaks CI because the iotests aren't actually
> > prepared to run on any emulator. They should be, so this is really a bug
> > in the failing test cases that should be fixed there, but as a quick
> > fix, let's revert to the old behaviour to let CI runs succeed again.
>
> FWIW this is the same problem I had 1 year ago and tried to
> fix it by sending QMP 'query-version' (introduced in v0.14):
> https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg675075.html
In the current failures the issue isn't the version number. Rather some
of the tests (mistakenly) assume the emulator supports PCI, and we're
randomly sometimes picking emulator targets that lack PCI.
Regards,
Daniel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-02 15:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-02 14:28 [PATCH] iotests: Revert emulator selection to old behaviour Kevin Wolf
2021-02-02 14:35 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-02-02 14:41 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-02-02 14:51 ` Kevin Wolf
2021-02-02 14:46 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-02-02 14:48 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-02-02 14:56 ` Daniel P. Berrangé [this message]
2021-02-02 15:40 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-02-02 14:54 ` Eric Blake
2021-02-02 15:48 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
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