Message: 3
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 08:29:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Kamil Paral <kparal(a)redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Virtualization support
To: AutoQA development <autoqa-devel(a)lists.fedorahosted.org>
Message-ID:
<1532790094.383731289309367710.JavaMail.root(a)zmail03.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
----- "Scott M Ferguson" <smferguson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Joza was kinda enough to let me have a go at part of the
> virtualization support: enabling 2-way communication between a
> virt-host and virt-guests and I'm starting to dig into it. Per his
> suggestion I'm working on a generic api that can be tuned based on
> the
> needs of the project and I wanted to bring it up to the list. A few
> initial thoughts from Joza regarding communication were:
>
> Host->Guest - this needs to be able to select a certain virt guest
> 1) Is a test actually running?
> 2) Disconnect autotest-enabled eth
> 3) run a command
>
> Guest->Host
> 1) Test finished
> 2) Test crashed
> 3) Test running too long
> 4) Destructive test finished, revert me to 'safe' snapshot
>
> He also noted a management interface on the server might be
> interesting and James noted that it will need to play nice with
> autotest.
>
> I know this is a long-term goal, but I'd love to hear everyone's
> thoughts when time permits.
Hey Scott,
it absolutely great that you want to help us with this one. We really
appreciate it. I don't know how many details jskladan provided to you,
but here us some additional information about it:
https://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-devel/2010-June/000642.html
https://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/milestone/Virtualization
Don't hesitate to ask and consult anything related in here.
Thanks,
Kamil
Thanks for the additional info. I'll definitely keep the list updated
and likely have lots of questions.
Best,
Scott