The tuxrun tests send a series of strings to the guest to login
and then run commands. Since we have been unable to match on
console output that isn't followed by a newline, the test used
many time.sleep() statements to pretend to synchronize with
the guest.
This has proved to be unreliable for the aarch64be instance of
the tuxrun tests, with the test often hanging. The hang is a
very subtle timing problem, and it is suspected that some
(otherwise apparently harmless) I/O error messages could be
resulting in full FIFO buffers, stalling interaction with
the guest.
With the newly rewritten console interaction able to match
strings that don't have a following newline, the tux run
tests can now match directly on the login prompt, and/or
shell PS1 prompt.
Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2689
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20241121154218.1423005-17-berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20241121165806.476008-17-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Historical bugs in avocado related to zstd support are not relevant to
the code now that it uses QEMU's native test harness.
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20241121154218.1423005-7-berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20241121165806.476008-7-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
The zstd command will preserve the input archive permissions on the
output file. So when we decompress the readonly cached image, the
resulting per-test run private disk image will also be readonly.
We need it to be writable, so make it so.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20241025092659.2312118-2-berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Add a base class for the TuxRun tests, based on the code from
tests/avocado/tuxrun_baselines.py (the test have to be put into
separate file in the following commits, depending on the target
architecture that gets tested).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20241011131937.377223-2-thuth@redhat.com>
Daniel P. Berrangé