[Libvirt-cim] CimTest Report for KVM on F9 06-08-2008

[Kaitlin Rupert]

  > I went through the test case and found to have the following problems
> with the test case:
> 
>    1) The XML configuration information with the existing test case is 
> not completely correct for *creating* a KVM/XenFV guest.
>       It does not set the test_disk information correctly, but this does 
> not matter when we just *define *the guest, but surely the XML config 
> was not useful in *creating* the KVM/XenFV guest.
>       The test_disk was set to 'xvdb' for all Xen/XenFV/KVM.
>    2) The network pool information that is used for creating the guest 
> and the networkpool used in the rest of the test case are different.
>    3) The tc was using create_diskpool_file() function to create a
> DiskPool, this should have been create_diskpool_conf() which calls 
> either creating of diskconf file or using the diskpool
>       depending on  the version of the libvirt on the machine.
>    4) Also, the networkpool information that was initialized using the 
> pool_init_list() test case was getting overwritten in the case where 
> there were more than one networkpool existed.
>       And this could be one of the potential reason for the test case to 
> be intermittently fail, since the information in the list would not have 
> been set appropriately.

Yep, I agree here. I was seeing this fail when I had more than one 
network pool defined because the guest was using one pool but the test 
was comparing against a different pool.

Thanks for looking at this test - looks like a lot of issues to fix.
-- 
Kaitlin Rupert
IBM Linux Technology Center
kaitlin at linux.vnet.ibm.com