[Avocado-devel] How to create a s390-virtio image.

Mon Jul 4 12:02:25 UTC 2016

On 07/01/2016 03:24 AM, Lukáš Doktor wrote:
> Dne 30.6.2016 v 15:36 Wei WA Li napsal(a):
>> Hi Lukáš,
>>
>>
>> Thank you for your information, I will try later.
>>
>> I saw your commands are execution about qemu, I want to test libvirt as
>> below.
>>
>> avocado run --vt-type libvirt
>> --vt-guest-os=Linux.Ubuntu.14.04.3-server.x86_64.i440fx
>> type_specific.io-github-autotest-libvirt.virsh.reset.negative_test.readonly
>>
>>
>> 1) I found all of images from avocado list --vt-type libvirt are i440fx.
>> Is this only one choice we can use now?
>> But above command can be executed successfully, but I am not sure how
>> avocado libvirt use this paramter of i440fx and whether it is necessary
>> for libvirt test.
> Hello Wei,
>
> as I mentioned previously, the `list` command does not accept
> `--vt-arch` nor `--vt-machine-type` and automatically applies `x86_64`,
> `i440fx` filters. You could temporarily change the defaults in the
> avocado-vt plugin, or you can simply wait as we are working on the
> support for changing the machine for other commands. I'd suggest simply
> replacing the `x86_64` with `s390`, or just omitting the unnecessary
> parts as when you use `--machine-type` in `avocado run` it adds the
> `s390-virtio` filter.
>
> Actually cartesian_config (avocado-vt variants/params generator) is
> quite simple. It knows nothing about architectures, machine types, guest
> hw, nor tests. It simply takes all variants and applies global filters
> like "only s390x", which means it ignores all other variants (like
> `x86_64` or `ppc64le`).
>
> For Fedora I'm using `--vt-guest-os Fedora.23` so if you already defined
> `Ubuntu..s390` the `--vt-guest-os Ubuntu.14.04.3-server` should be
> executable and along with `--vt-machine-type s390-virtio --vt-arch
> s390x` should give you just a single variant. If you haven't defined the
> `Ubuntu..s390` yet, you can do it similarly as I defined the
> `Fedora.23.s390`.
>
>
>>
>>
>> 2) How can I added a new image to list? I have added Ubuntu.16.04 info
>> to 16.04-server.s390x.cfg and it had added to guest-os.cfg.
>>    But Ubuntu.16.04 can not show on avocado list. I want to add a image
>> as Linux.Ubuntu.16.04-server.x86_64.s390-virtio
>>
> Currently you can't, because `s390x` is omitted due to default `avocado
> list` filters (`only s86_64`). But when you use `avocado run` it'll be
> used if you define the `--vt-machine-type`.
>
> Hopefully this works for you. We neglected other archs for a while, but
> you can see the `avocado list` is on our TODO list
> https://trello.com/c/aumjDJde/715-add-vt-list-machines-and-vt-list-archs
> (most probably won't be implemented in this release, but should be
> implemented in the next one, which means in less than 4 weeks - no
> guarantee, though).

And since Avocado-VT "releases" are basically a packaging convenience, 
and most users will be running out of the Git repo, you should be able 
to pick it up right after the development of the feature with a `git pull`.

- Cleber.

>
> Regards,
> Lukáš
>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> -
>> Li， Wei （李 伟）
>> zKVM Solution Test
>> IBM China Systems & Technology Lab, Beijing
>> E-Mail: liwbj at cn.ibm.com
>> Tel: 86-10-82450631 Notes: Wei WA Li/China/IBM
>> Address: 3BW298, Ring Bldg. No.28 Building, ZhongGuanCun Software
>> Park,No.8
>> DongBeiWang West Road, ShangDi, Haidian District, Beijing, P.R.China
>>
>>
>> Inactive hide details for Lukáš Doktor ---2016/06/30 20:18:21---Hello
>> Wei, this is an issue quite high on our todo list. The `Lukáš Doktor
>> ---2016/06/30 20:18:21---Hello Wei, this is an issue quite high on our
>> todo list. The `avocado list` does
>>
>> From: Lukáš Doktor <ldoktor at redhat.com>
>> To: Wei WA Li/China/IBM at IBMCN, Avocado-devel at redhat.com
>> Date: 2016/06/30 20:18
>> Subject: Re: How to create a s390-virtio image.
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello Wei,
>>
>> this is an issue quite high on our todo list. The `avocado list` does
>> not support `--vt-arch`, nor `--vt-machine-type` and simply assumes the
>> default (x86_64). Anyway the `run` command does support
>> `--vt-machine-type s390-virtio --vt-arch 390x`.
>>
>> My workflow to install the F23 guest on RHEL7 host is (non-optimized):
>>
>> ```bash
>> # Install qemu
>> git clone https://github.com/qemu/qemu.git --recursive
>> cd qemu
>> yum install zlib-devel glib2-devel -y
>> CXFLAGS="-lrt" CFLAGS="-lrt" QEMU_CFLAGS="-lrt" ./configure
>> --target-list="s390x-softmmu" --enable-kvm
>> make -j 3
>> make install
>>
>> # Install avocado
>> git clone https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado.git
>> git clone https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado-vt.git
>>
>> curl "https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py" -o "get-pip.py"
>> python get-pip.py
>>
>> cd avocado
>> yum install python-devel libvirt-python libvirt -y
>> make requirements
>> cd ../avocado-vt
>> make requirements
>> cd -
>> make install
>> cd -
>> make install
>> yum install tcpdump -y
>> avocado vt-bootstrap --vt-guest-os Fedora.23
>>
>> # Playing with it
>> # Try running boot (should fail as there is no image)
>> avocado run --vt-guest-os Fedora.23 --vt-arch s390x --vt-machine-type
>> s390-virtio --vt-qemu-bin /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-s390x boot
>> # Install it
>> yum install genisoimage
>> mkdir  /usr/share/avocado/data/avocado-vt/isos/linux
>> wget
>> https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/23/Server/s390x/iso/Fedora-Server-DVD-s390x-23.iso
>>
>> -O
>> /usr/share/avocado/data/avocado-vt/isos/linux/Fedora-Server-DVD-s390x-23.iso
>>
>> modprobe kvm
>> avocado run --vt-guest-os Fedora.23 --vt-arch s390x --vt-machine-type
>> s390-virtio --vt-qemu-bin /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-s390x
>> unattended_install.cdrom.extra_cdrom_ks.default_install.aio_threads
>> --show-job-log
>> # And now we can run it (or any other test)
>> avocado run --vt-guest-os Fedora.23 --vt-arch s390x --vt-machine-type
>> s390-virtio --vt-qemu-bin /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-s390x boot
>> ```
>>
>> I'm sorry for confusion, we plan to add the `arch/machine` to the `list`
>> commands too.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Lukáš
>>
>> Dne 30.6.2016 v 10:39 Wei WA Li napsal(a):
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I am testing libvirt test case on s390x now, I found all of guest are
>>> i440fx machine_type.
>>> How can I create a s390-virtio image? Which cfg file I need to modify?
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>>
>>> [root at zs95kv2 guests]# avocado list --vt-type libvirt --vt-list-guests
>>> ......
>>> Linux.Ubuntu.12.04-server.i386.i440fx (missing
>>> ubuntu-12.04-server-32.qcow2)
>>> Linux.Ubuntu.12.04-server.x86_64.i440fx (missing
>>> ubuntu-12.04-server-64.qcow2)
>>> Linux.Ubuntu.14.04-server.i386.i440fx (missing
>>> ubuntu-14.04-server-32.qcow2)
>>> Linux.Ubuntu.14.04-server.x86_64.i440fx (missing
>>> ubuntu-14.04-server-64.qcow2)
>>> Linux.Ubuntu.14.04.1-server.i386.i440fx (missing
>>> ubuntu-14.04.1-server-32.qcow2)
>>> Linux.Ubuntu.14.04.1-server.x86_64.i440fx (missing
>>> ubuntu-14.04.1-server-64.qcow2)
>>> Linux.Ubuntu.14.04.3-server.i386.i440fx (missing
>>> ubuntu-14.04.3-server-32.qcow2)
>>> Linux.Ubuntu.14.04.3-server.x86_64.i440fx
>>>
>>>
>>> [root at zs95kv2 guests]# avocado list --vt-type libvirt --vt-list-guests
>>> --vt-machine-type s390-virtio
>>> Searched /usr/share/avocado/data/avocado-vt/images for guest images
>>>
>>> Available guests in config:
>>>
>>> [root at zs95kv2 guests]#
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> -
>>> Li， Wei （李 伟）
>>> zKVM Solution Test
>>> IBM China Systems & Technology Lab, Beijing
>>> E-Mail: liwbj at cn.ibm.com
>>> Tel: 86-10-82450631 Notes: Wei WA Li/China/IBM
>>> Address: 3BW298, Ring Bldg. No.28 Building, ZhongGuanCun Software
>>> Park,No.8
>>> DongBeiWang West Road, ShangDi, Haidian District, Beijing, P.R.China
>>>
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Cleber Rosa
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