[Libvirt-cim] Re: KVM on Pegasus Test Run Summary for Sep 23 2008

[Kaitlin Rupert]

>> FAIL Test Summary:
>> ElementConforms - 01_forward.py: FAIL
>> HostSystem - 01_enum.py: FAIL
>> HostSystem - 03_hs_to_settdefcap.py: FAIL
> The above test cases are failing because there is a mismatch in the 
> hostname value returned by the providers and the hostname info used in 
> the test cases.
> The provider is returning the FQDN and the test case is just using the 
> hostname.
> Need to fix the above test cases.
> The provider is returning an FQDN in case of RHEL5.2 and is independent 
> of the order in which the information for 127.0.0.1 is present in 
> /etc/hosts, but in case of F10 the information returned by the *ein* on 
> HostSystem is completely dependent on the order in the /etc/hosts file. 
> On F10 the first entry in the /etc/hosts is returned.
> Should we use both the hostname and the FQDN to verify the HostSystem 
> info in the test cases?
> What is the expected behaviour from the providers ?

The providers use the following algorithm (this is in Virt_HostSystem):

name = gethostname()

If name is not a FQDN, then:

struct hostent *host = gethostbyname(name)
host->h_name

I haven't verified, but Python's getfqdn() might help you here.

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Kaitlin Rupert
IBM Linux Technology Center
kaitlin at linux.vnet.ibm.com