On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 09:05:49AM +0100, Lukáš Doktor wrote:
> Dne 30. 11. 20 v 14:25 Stefan Hajnoczi napsal(a):
> > On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 09:10:14AM +0100, Lukáš Doktor wrote:
> > What is the minimal environment needed for bare metal hosts?
> > 
> 
> Not sure what you mean by that. For provisioning I have a beaker plugin, other plugins can be added if needed. Even without beaker one can also provide an installed machine and skip the provisioning step. Runperf would then only apply the profiles (including fetching the VM images from public sources) and run the tests on them. Note that for certain profiles might need to reboot the machine and in such case the tested machine can not be the one running run-perf, other profiles can use the current machine but it's still not a very good idea as the additional overhead might spoil the results.
> 
> Note that for a very simple issue which do not require a special setup I am usually just running a custom VM on my laptop and use a Localhost profile on that VM, which basically results in testing that custom-setup VM's performance. It's dirty but very fast for the first-level check.

I was thinking about reprovisioning the machine to ensure each run
starts from the same clean state. This requires reprovisioning.

Stefan