[Avocado-devel] Issues: pf assignable testing

[Xu Han]

Hello Zhiguo Wu,

Firstly, thank you for your attention to the avocado project!

It seems that the PF/VF assignment functionality has not been maintained
for a few years, and hence I don't even sure about if these kinds of tests
could be run properly. But I will try to answer your questions as much as I
can.

On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 8:46 PM <wuzhiguo at loongson.cn> wrote:
>
> Dear avocado development team,
>
>
> In pf assignable testing, I found some issue:
>
> 1. guest-hw.cfg:  driver not set in pf_assignable variants.

Would you please elaborate more about the issue you encountered so that it
can help me understand that? thanks!

>
> 2. Avocado always try to find IP for mac which is generated by
virtnet.generate_mac_address(), not for pf assignable device's mac. So test
failed.
>
>     For example, mac of pf assignable device is "90:e2:ba:34:bf:e6", but
avocado always try to find IP for mac (9a:7a:7f:25:5c:c3)

This looks like a bug. Anyway, could you please try with the following to
see if it can workaround the issue?

1. apply the patch below to avocado-vt.

diff --git a/virttest/qemu_vm.py b/virttest/qemu_vm.py
index 6706b097..dfd6d5bc 100644
--- a/virttest/qemu_vm.py
+++ b/virttest/qemu_vm.py
@@ -3011,6 +3011,8 @@ class VM(virt_vm.BaseVM):
                     elif pa_type == "pf":
                         self.pci_assignable.add_device(device_type=pa_type,
                                                        name=name)
+                        self.virtnet.set_mac_address(nic["nic_name"],
+                                                     nic_params["mac"])
                     else:
                         raise virt_vm.VMBadPATypeError(pa_type)
                 else:

2. set the `mac` param to the PF nic device with its actual value, for
example,

mac_nicpf1 = 90:e2:ba:34:bf:e6

('nicpf1' is the logic name of the PF nic in this example, please replace
it with the one used in your case.)

Best regards,
Xu Han

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> Could you please share your comments ?
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Zhiguo Wu
>
>
>
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