Re: Adding default config options to the tuxrun baseline kernels and enabling sshd

[Remi Duraffort <remi.duraffort@linaro.org>]

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Hello Alex,



Le ven. 24 mars 2023 à 12:02, Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> a écrit :

> Hi guys,
>
> I've been working with David on adding testing for the new KVM Xen guest
> functionality and had a couple of questions. His original test is based
> on fedora and is fairly comprehensive:
>
>
> https://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/qemu.git/commitdiff/48f78f9bb860dca446e20d6ed8db3aa9d857505f
>
> but we did try building a scratch kernel and using the rest of the
> baseline infrastructure which worked well enough:
>
>
> https://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/qemu.git/commitdiff/8b9e04d1c7c942f51b575b94fd280bd2353f76b6
>
> but obviously the kernel there is pulling directly from tuxsuite so will
> time out soon enough. They were built with the following tuxbuild
> config:
>
>   version: 1
>   name: Xen Guest Kernels
>   description: Build Xen Test Kernels
>   jobs:
>   - builds:
>       - {target_arch: x86_64, toolchain: gcc-12, kconfig: [defconfig,
> "CONFIG_XEN=y", "CONFIG_XEN_PVHVM=y", "CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND=y",
> "CONFIG_XEN_PVHVM_GUEST=y"]}
>       - {target_arch: i386, toolchain: gcc-12, kconfig: [defconfig,
> "CONFIG_XEN=y", "CONFIG_XEN_PVHVM=y", "CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND=y",
> "CONFIG_XEN_PVHVM_GUEST=y"]}
>     test: {device: qemu-x86_64, tests: [ltp-smoke]}
>
> The other nice thing about his original tests where using ssh which
> avoids a) avoids some of the flakeness of using the serial port and b)
> has an explicit success/fail for each command without having to scrape
> pass/fail from the log.
>
> So two questions:
>
>   - is there a process for adding kernel options to the baseline kernels
>     or should we build our own and store them somewhere?
>
>   - what would it take to get dropbear added to the baseline ext4 images
>     so we can enable sshd?
>

The kernels and rootfs are built by this gitlab project:
https://gitlab.com/LinaroLtd/tuxsuite.com/tuxtest/tuxtest-buildroot using
buildroot.
So for sure we can add sshd support quickly. Regarding the support for xen,
this can be added for arm64 if you want (only arm64 or something else)?




> Thanks,
>
> --
> Alex Bennée
> Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro
>


-- 
Rémi Duraffort
Principal Tech Lead
Automation Software Team
Linaro

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