Re: 2.6.11 testing

Thanks.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Hughes [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 1:36 AM
> To: Stan
> Cc: 'ssic-linux-devel'
> Subject: Re: [SSI-devel] 2.6.11 testing
> 
> Stan wrote:
> > Hi, John,
> >    What's you favorite method for brining up (debugging) a 
> new SSI kernel? 
> > UML (User-Mode-Linux/SSI?) or some other mechanism beyond a 
> serial port and
> > hard reboots?
> >   
> At the moment I'm having best results with qemu (with or 
> without kqemu)
> and kvm (faster than qemu, only works on some hardware).


Did you encounter any anomalies in the qemu Linux setup instructions?


> 
> One of the problems with OpenSSI is that it's far to easy to 
> end up with
> an unbootable system - if you can make a new image with a cp or two
> things go a lot faster.
> 
> For the networking I find vde a lot easier to set up than 
> tun/bridging.
> 
> > What type of OSSI correctness tests are you using beyond DRDB?
> >   
> I'm trying all the basic functionality:
> 
>    1. Cross node device/file access (ok)
>    2. CVIP (ok, with failover)
>    3. migration (ok)
>    4. boot/shutdown non-init nodes (ok)
>    5. boot/shutdown potential init nodes (ok)
>    6. root failover with shared disk (using qemu this is extra easy to
>       set up - the "shared disk" is just a file). (ok)
>    7. non-root failover with shared disk (in progress)
>    8. root failover with drdb (problems)
>    9. non-root failover with drbd (not yet started)
> 
> > Do you or someone else have an OSSI regression test suite?
> >   
> I don't.   Would be a nice thing to have.
> 
> 


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