Re: Re: Virtualization support

[Scott M Ferguson]

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>  Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 08:29:27 -0500 (EST)
>  From: Kamil Paral <kparal(a)redhat.com&gt;
>  Subject: Re: Virtualization support
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>  ----- "Scott M Ferguson" <smferguson(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
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> > 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

Virtualization support

[Scott M Ferguson]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Scott M Ferguson <smferguson(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
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> > Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 08:29:27 -0500 (EST)
> > From: Kamil Paral <kparal(a)redhat.com&gt;
> > Subject: Re: Virtualization support
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> > ----- "Scott M Ferguson" <smferguson(a)gmail.com&gt; 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
>  
Hey all. I have a rough proof-of-concept going for the client/server,
but in chatting it over with a friend a novel idea came up. What if
the server just opened 2 ssh sessions for each client. 1 to run the
tests, 1 to tail the log (grab the result). Then we wouldn't need a
client daemon. I'm not sure this is desirable since other projects use
a standard client/server model, but thought it was worth bringing up.

Best,
Scott