Architectures/PowerPC/Fedora 26 PowerPC Cloud

Which tests to run

Test coverage page
This page provides information about test coverage for the tests on this page across all the composes for the current release: it can help you see which test cases most need to be run.

Tests with a Milestone of Alpha, Beta or Final are the most important. Optional tests are less so, but still useful to run. The milestone indicates that for that milestone release or a later one to be approved for release, the test must have been run against the release candidate build (so at Beta, all Alpha and Beta tests must have been run, for instance). However, it is important to run the tests for all milestones as early and often as possible. Please refer to the test coverage page linked above and try to find and run tests which have not been run at all, or not run recently, for the current release.

How to test

1. Download one or more media for testing:

Image	ppc64	ppc64le
nightly compose path	Rawhide nightly path f26 nighly path	Rawhide nightly path f26 nighly path
cloud image	RC-1.4 ppc64 images	RC-1.4 ppc64le images
docker image		RC-1.4 ppc64le images

2. Perform one or more of the test cases and add your results to the table below

• You can submit results by editing the page directly for reporting test results.

3. If a test fails, file a bug report. You may propose the bug as a release blocker or freeze exception bug for the appropriate release - see blocker bug process and freeze exception bug process.

Tracker bugs

• F26PPCAlpha
• F26PPCBeta
• 26PPCFinal

Some tests must be run against particular Products or images - for example, the #Default boot and install tests. If no particular product or image is specified either in this page or the test case page, you can use any appropriate image. For example, you can run most of the #General Tests with the Server install images.

For nightly compose testing, use the network install images linked above for Server tests. Cloud and non-Product live and disk images should be available from Koji via the searches linked above.|Delta_ISOs for Server offline installer images are available here. If you have the Server offline install image for the previous TC/RC (or in the case of Alpha TC1, the previous stable release), you can generate the current install image with greatly reduced download size.}}

If you notice a problem during a test which does not constitute a complete failure of the test, you should still file a bug report, but it may not be appropriate to propose it as a release blocker bug. Use your judgment in deciding this, with reference to the Fedora_Release_Criteria, which these tests are intended to verify. If you are unsure, err on the side of proposing the bug as a blocker.

Don't install updates
Don't install updates before performing any of the tests, as when you are testing pre-releases, available updates are not part of the proposed released package set.

Virtual machine testing
In most cases, testing in a virtual machine is OK.

Key

See the table below for a sample format for test results. All test results are posted using the result template.

Test Result	Explanation	Code Entered
none	Untested - This test has not been run, and is available for anyone to contribute feedback.	{{result|none}}
pass robatino	Passed - The test has been run and the tester determine the test met the expected results	{{result|pass|robatino}}
inprogress adamwill	Inprogress - An inprogress result is often used for tests that take a long time to execute. Inprogress results should be temporary and change to pass, fail or warn.	{{result|inprogress|adamwill}}
fail jlaska	Failed - Indicates a failed test. A link to a bug must be provided. See Template:Result for details on providing bug information.	{{result|fail|jlaska|XYZ|ZXY}}
warn rhe	Warning - This test completed and met the expected results of the test, but other issues were encountered during testing that warrant attention.	{{result|warn|rhe}} <ref>Brief description about the warning status</ref>
pass hongqing warn kparal	Multiple results - More people can easily provide results to a single test case.	{{result|pass|hongqing}} {{result|warn|kparal}}
pass previous <build> run	Result from previous test run - This test result is directly moved from the test run of previous <build>.	{{result|pass|previous <build> run}}
	Unsupported - An unsupported test or configuration. No testing is required.

Test Matrix

Cloud Provider Setup

Expand one of the sections below for instructions on getting set up to run these testcases on a specific provider. More information can be found in the Fedora Cloud guide.

Amazon EC2

1. Get an AWS account (the approval process can take hours)
2. Make sure that your security group allows for SSH (default tcp port 22)
3. Log in to the AWS Management Console
4. Obtain the AMI id of the image you want to test. For officially released images, check http://cloud.fedoraproject.org/. If you're doing validation testing, there should be some tables of AMI IDs above; if not, try looking through the messages published by the AMI publisher
5. Search for and select the desired AMI on the IMAGES/AMIs section of the EC2 console
6. Launch an instance with the AMI under test

Amazon provided this information on various instance types that may be useful to test, in August 2019. Note that you can use 750 hours per month on a t2.micro instance (which is Xen-based) for free for the first year; other instance types, and t2.micro after the first year, cost money. To avoid costs, you can contact the the Infrastructure team and request access to Fedora's AWS account for testing purposes, per this SOP.

x86 platforms

• Xen domU with only PV interfaces (e.g., M3 instances)
• Xen domU with Intel 82599 virtual functions for Enhanced Networking (e.g., C3 instances running in a VPC)
• Xen domU with Enhanced Networking Adapter (e.g., R4 instances)
• Xen domU with NVMe local instance storage (e.g., virtualized I3 instances)
• Xen domU with more than 32 vCPUs (e.g., c4.8xlarge)
• Xen domU with four NUMA nodes (e.g., x1.32xlarge)
• Xen domU with maximum RAM available in EC2 (x1e.32xlarge)
• KVM guest with consistent performance (e.g., c5.large)
• KVM guest with burstable performance (e.g., t3.large)
• KVM guest with local NVMe storage (e.g., c5d.large)
• KVM guest with 100 Gbps networking and Elastic Fabric Adapter (c5n.18xlarge)
• KVM guest on AMD processors (e.g., m5a.large)
• KVM guest on AMD processors with maximum NUMA nodes (e.g., m5a.24xlarge)
• Bare metal Broadwell (i3.metal)
• Bare metal Skylake (m5.metal)
• Bare metal Cascade Lake (c5.metal)

Arm platforms

• KVM guest on Arm with 1 CPU cluster (a1.xlarge)
• KVM guest on Arm with 2 CPU clusters (a1.2xlarge)
• KVM guest on Arm with 4 CPU clusters (a1.4xlarge)

Openstack

1. Use your own OpenStack deployment
2. Provide or create an SSH keypair
3. Make sure that your security group allows for SSH (default tcp port 22)
4. Log in to the Horizon dashboard
5. Find the image URL at http://cloud.fedoraproject.org/ or as provided in release candidate documents.
6. Add the image to OpenStack, either using the OpenStack web dashboard (see step 4 here) or with glance image-create --name "Fedora version" --disk-format qcow2 --container-format bare --is-public true --copy-from url
7. Launch the instance (in the dashboard, under the "Images" heading, click the "Launch" button for the appropriate image

Local testing

1. You can deploy the cloud image locally either using the well-known virt-install tool or a Fedora-specific testcloud tool. See Local cloud testing with virt-install or Testcloud quickstart guide, respectively.
2. Once logged in the virtual cloud instance, you can perform the tests below.

Openstack Cloud base

Milestone	Test Case	Bare Metal		PKVM BE		PKVM LE		PVM
		BE	LE	Guest BE	Guest LE	Guest BE	Guest LE	LPAR BE	LPAR LE
Alpha	QA:Testcase_base_startup	none	none	none	pass Beta-1.4 menantea	pass 20170605.n.0 openqa	pass 20170605.n.0 openqa	none	none
Alpha	QA:Testcase_base_system_logging	none	none	none	pass Beta-1.4 menantea	pass 20170605.n.0 openqa	pass 20170605.n.0 openqa	none	none
Final	QA:Testcase_Services_start	none	none	none	pass Beta-1.4 menantea	pass 20170605.n.0 openqa	pass 20170605.n.0 openqa	none	none
Final	QA:Testcase_base_selinux	none	none	none	pass Beta-1.4 menantea	pass 20170605.n.0 openqa	pass 20170605.n.0 openqa	none	none
Final	QA:Testcase_base_service_manipulation	none	none	none	none	pass 20170605.n.0 openqa	pass 20170605.n.0 openqa	none	none

Atomic

Milestone	Test Case	Bare Metal		PKVM BE		PKVM LE		PVM
		BE	LE	Guest BE	Guest LE	Guest BE	Guest LE	LPAR BE	LPAR LE
Alpha	QA:Testcase_base_startup	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none
Alpha	QA:Testcase_base_system_logging	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none
Final	QA:Testcase_Services_start	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none
Final	QA:Testcase_base_selinux	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none
Final	QA:Testcase_base_service_manipulation	none	none	none	none	none	none	none	none

Docker

Milestone	Test Case	Bare Metal		PKVM BE		PKVM LE		PVM
		BE	LE	Guest BE	Guest LE	Guest BE	Guest LE	LPAR BE	LPAR LE
Optional	QA:Testcase_base_startup	none	none		none warn Beta-1.4 ppc64le openQA	none	warn Beta-1.4 ppc64le sinnykumari		none		none