[Libvirt-cim] Re: Test Run Summary (Feb 02 2009): Xen on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2 Beta (Tikanga) with Pegasus

[Kaitlin Rupert]

>> VirtualSystemMigrationService - 02_host_migrate_type.py: FAIL
>> VirtualSystemMigrationService - 05_migratable_host_errs.py: FAIL
>> VirtualSystemSettingDataComponent - 02_reverse.py: FAIL
>> VirtualSystemSettingDataComponent - 03_vssdc_fwd_errs.py: FAIL
>> VirtualSystemSettingDataComponent - 04_vssdc_rev_errs.py: FAIL
>>
> The common thing in the test case is that all these test cases failed to 
> use vxml.create().
> 
> Using the xml from these tests and running the virsh create on the xml 
> fails with the following error:
> libvir: Xen Daemon error : POST operation failed: (xend.err 'Device 0 
> (vkbd) could not be connected. Hotplug scripts not working.')
> 
> Starting the xend/libvirtd might sometimes help, but otherwise the error 
> goes only when the machine is rebooted.
> 
> These tests fail because of this problem intermittently and are not 
> regular failures.
> When I changed cxml.create() to cxml.cim_define() cxml.start() one of 
> the test VirtualSystemSettingDataComponent/02_reverse.py passed.
> Using cim_define() and cim.start() should help and fix the tests.
> 

Thanks for looking into this.  We should be moving away from create() 
anyway, so it'll be good to modify these tests.

-- 
Kaitlin Rupert
IBM Linux Technology Center
kaitlin at linux.vnet.ibm.com