[Avocado-devel] Problem running functional tests from China

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 01:01:40PM +0100, Michal Suchánek wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 12:37:53PM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> > On 2/24/21 12:06 PM, Michal Suchánek wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 10:29:15AM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> > >> Just to inform the files hosted on github don't work when
> > >> testing from China:
> > > 
> > >>
> > >> raw.githubusercontent.com resolves to 127.0.0.1
> > 
> > Actually not even localhost but 0.0.0.0 :)
> > 
> > > And from where does this come from?
> > > 
> > > Your local system, your ISP, ... ?
> > 
> > Probably the ISP:
> > 
> ...
> > 
> > I raised that problem not to find a way to bypass an ISP
> > firewall, but to see if there is a way to use another
> > storage for test artifacts so all the community can run
> > the tests.
> 
> I don't think protecting from random network malfunction is something
> the qemu project can do.
> 
> That said, downloading the test data during test run does indeed look
> fragile.
> 
> We have the concept of git submodules which is used in qemu extensively
> so the test data could possibly be included directly in the git tree.
> 
> The obvious downside is that the current and past test binaries will take
> up disk space for all users that check out the repository, even those
> that don't run the tests.

We explicitly do not want to be distributing / including the
images ourselves, as that makes the QEMU project responsible for
license compliance and thus provision of full & corresponding source.


Regards,
Daniel
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