Test Day:2009-05-07 Virtualization

DATE	TIME	WHERE
Thu May 7, 2009	All Day	#fedora-qa)

What to test?

Today's installment of Fedora Test Day will focus on widespread testing of Fedora Virtualization in general, with a particular emphasis on some:

• KVM PCI Device Assignment
• KVM and QEMU Merge
• SVirt Mandatory Access Control
• Improved Graphical Console
• VNC SASL Authentication

Who's available

The following cast of characters will be available testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion ...

• Development - Mark McLoughlin, Rich Jones, Dan Berrange
• Quality Assurance - James Laska, Chris Ward

Prerequisite for Test Day

You will primarily be concerned with testing Fedora 11 as a virtualization host. You will need:

• A fully updated Fedora 11 Rawhide machine. For information on installing and upgrading to rawhide, see Releases/Rawhide.
• Hardware virtualization support (e.g. Intel VT or AMD-V). If not, you can still help with testing QEMU support.
• At least one guest image installed before the test day.
• Up to 10-20Gb free disk space. Guest images take up a lot of space.
• To test device assignment, Intel VT-d or AMD IOMMU support.
• To test kvm-autotest, DVD ISOs downloaded for Fedora 8
• To test Fedora 11 guest installs, DVD ISOs downloaded for Fedora 11 Preview Release

How to test?

Jump on IRC, pick some areas to test from the table below, add yourself to the table and file bugs as you see them.

Coming soon ...
Stay tuned for test cases for each of the test areas.

Test Area	Comments	Testers Required	Estimated Time	Testers	Status
Device Assignment	Requires specific hardware (i.e. VT-d)	2	2 hours	Mark McLoughlin	Not started
sVirt	Some familiarity with SELinux would help	4	2 hours	Dan Walsh, Martin Koci	Not started
VNC Authentication	SASL authentication in VNC qemu server; several auth methods need testing	2	2 hours	Dan Berrange	Not started
Graphical Console	F11 guests should have 1024x768 and absolute pointer by default	2	30 minutes	Rich Jones	Not started
KVM Test Suite	We want to have kvm-autotest run on as many different hardware profiles as possible	10	30 minutes	Mike Burns	Not started
libvirt	Basic libvirt acceptance testing	4	30 minutes	Dan Berrange, Rich Jones	Not started
virt-install	Guest installs from command line	2	2 hours	Cole Robinson	Not started
virt-manager	Broad coverage of all virt-manager functionality	4	4 hours	Cole Robinson	Not started
Guest Installs	F10, F11, RHEL 3/4/5 and Windows installs	4	2 hours	Liam Li	Not started
Device Hotplug	Testing both hotplug UI and underlying KVM/QEMU support	2	2 hour	Marcelo Tosatti	Not started
SMP and CPU Hotplug	Testing basic SMP support; also CPU hotplug from UI	2	2 hours	Glauber Costa	Not started
Save/Restore/Migrate	Remote migration needs a second machine, basic testing possible without this	2	2 hours	Glauber Costa	Not started
Suspend/Resume/Shutdown/Reboot	Important to test with different Guest OSes	2	2 hours	Marcelo Tosatti	Not started
Console	Including graphical/serial, scaling, fullscreen, grabs, keymaps	4	2 hours	Dan Berrange	Not started
Networking	Different host network configurations, different NICs	2	2 hours	Mark McLoughlin	Not started
Storage	Different storage pools, image formats, virtio/ide/scsi, caching modes	2	4 hours	Dan Berrange	Not started
Xen DomU	Need to ensure that F11 works well as a Xen guest	2	2 hours	Chris Lalancette	Not started