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Description
Nova comes with a selection of fairly basic smoke tests which you can run against your installation. It can be useful to use these to sanity check your configuration.
Setup
You need these packages
$> sudo yum install python-nose python-paramiko fedpkg python-nova-adminclient
Make sure you have a block of floating IPs created, also as described above.
Also ensure that the nova objectstore service is running, as the S3 API is hit by the image tests:
$> sudo systemctl start openstack-nova-objectstore.service
How to test
Then, run the tests from a fedpkg checkout:
$> git clone git://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/openstack-nova.git $> cd openstack-nova $> git checkout f17 $> fedpkg prep $> cd nova-2012.1/smoketests $> python ./run_tests.py
Expected Results
Ensure all tests pass