Test Day:2009-05-07 Virtualization

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

What to test?

Today's instalment 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, Michal Marciniszyn

Documentation

• Getting_started_with_virtualization
• Reporting_virtualization_bugs

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.
  • Information on installing and upgrading to rawhide
  • Information on installing Fedora 11 Preview
• Hardware virtualization support (e.g. Intel VT or AMD-V). If unavailable, 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.
• See test areas below for area specific requirements

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.

Test Area	Comments	Testers Required	Estimated Time	Testers	Status
Device Assignment	Requires specific hardware (i.e. VT-d)	2	2 hours	Mark McLoughlin, Rainer Koenig	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, Chris Ward	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, Chris Ward	Not started
libvirt	Basic libvirt acceptance testing	4	30 minutes	Dan Berrange, Rich Jones, Pavan Naregundi	Not started
virt-install	Guest installs from command line	2	2 hours	Cole Robinson, Santwana Samantray	Not started
virt-manager	Broad coverage of all virt-manager functionality	4	4 hours	Cole Robinson, Santwana Samantray, Pavan Naregundi	Not started
Guest Installs	F10, F11, RHEL 3/4/5 and Windows installs	4	2 hours	Liam Li, James Laska, Jason Wang, Vivian Bian, Rainer Koenig, Pavan Naregundi, Santwana Samantray, Chris Ward	Not started
Device Hotplug	Testing both hotplug UI and underlying KVM/QEMU support	2	2 hour	Marcelo Tosatti	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	Important to stress test guests while suspending/resuming	2	2 hours	Marcelo Tosatti, Santwana Samantray, Chris Ward	Not started
Console	Including graphical/serial, scaling, fullscreen, grabs, keymaps	4	2 hours	Dan Berrange, James Laska	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, John Cooper	Not started
Xen DomU	Ensure that F11 works well as a Xen guest; comprehensive set of test cases on different guest/host combinations	2	8 hours	Chris Lalancette	Not started