Avocado-VT User’s Guide

Contents:

• About Avocado-VT
  • About virt-test
• Getting Started
  • Installing Avocado-vt
  • Bootstrapping Avocado-VT
  • First steps with Avocado-VT
• Writing Tests
  • Test Providers
  • Development workflow after the Repository Split
  • Writing your own avocado VT test
  • Defining New Guests
• Install Optional Packages
  • Fedora and EL
  • Debian
• Listing guests

Advanced Topics and Maintenance

Contents:

• How tests are run
• Cartesian Configuration
  • Keys and values
  • Variants
  • Named variants
  • Dependencies
  • Filters
  • Value Substitutions
  • Key sub-arrays
  • Heterogeneous guest variants
  • Include statements
  • Combinatorial outcome
  • Formal definition
  • Examples
  • Default Configuration Files
• Building test applications
  • Dependencies
  • remote_build
• Networking
  • Configuration
  • TestCases
• Performance Testing
  • Performance subtests
  • Environment setup
  • Execute testing
  • Analysis result
  • Regression results
• Setup a virtual environment for multi host tests
  • Problem:
  • Nested Virtualization:
  • Configuration for multi-host virt tests:
  • Config of host system
  • Config of Guest L0
  • Config of Guest L0 System
  • Check Guest L0 System
  • Start for multi-host virt tests:
  • Manually from host machine
  • More details:
• Multi Host Migration Tests
  • Running Multi Host Migration Tests
  • Prerequesites
  • Setup step by step
• Links with downloadable images for virt tests
  • Winutils ISO
  • Windows virtio drivers ISO
  • JeOS image
• GlusterFS support
  • How to use in Avocado-VT
  • How to use manually
  • Starting Gluster daemon
  • Gluster volume creation
  • Qemu Img creation
  • Example of qemu cmd Line
• Setting up a Regression Test Farm for KVM
  • Some conventions
  • CLI vs Web UI
  • Step 1 - Install an autotest server
  • Step 2 - Add test machines
  • Step 3 - Prepare the test jobs
  • sanity job
  • stable job
  • Setup cobbler to install hosts
  • Painful trial and error process to adjust details
• Installing Windows virtio drivers with Avocado-VT
  • A bit of context on windows virtio drivers install
  • Step by step procedure
• Running QEMU kvm-unit-tests
  • Run kvm-unit-tests in avocado
  • Run kvm-unit-tests in avocado-vt
• Parallel Jobs
  • Checking Installation
  • Configuration
  • Running Parallel Jobs
• Running in emulation mode (TCG)
  • aarch64
  • ppc64/ppc64le
  • s390x
  • riscv64
• Contribution and Community Guide
  • Contact information
  • Downloading the Source
  • Avocado VT Development Workflow
  • Contributions Guidelines and Tips
• Experimental features
  • riscv64

API Reference

• virttest

Cartesian Config Reference

• Cartesian Config

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page