[opensuse-arm] openQA : ARM qemu and real hardware?
Hi, I know that some work have been done to get openQA working on ARM through qemu, but also on real hardware. What is working for now? I would like to perform some tests and maybe contribute, if I am able to do so. So, please share any hints/pointers that could help. Guillaume -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner@opensuse.org
27.05.2015 15:32, Guillaume Gardet пишет:
Hi,
I know that some work have been done to get openQA working on ARM through qemu, but also on real hardware.
What is working for now? I would like to perform some tests and maybe contribute, if I am able to do so. So, please share any hints/pointers that could help.
Can I run openQA on my own real hardware? I would like to use openQA images instead on JeOS ones to test openSUSE on by BeagleBone Black. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner@opensuse.org
Le 28/05/2015 10:26, Matwey V. Kornilov a écrit :
27.05.2015 15:32, Guillaume Gardet пишет:
Hi,
I know that some work have been done to get openQA working on ARM through qemu, but also on real hardware.
What is working for now? I would like to perform some tests and maybe contribute, if I am able to do so. So, please share any hints/pointers that could help.
Can I run openQA on my own real hardware? I would like to use openQA images instead on JeOS ones to test openSUSE on by BeagleBone Black.
openQA just run ISO images (and maybe JeOS images for ARM now?) and compare expected screenshots to actual screenshots to check that all is OK (or not OK). I think that some progress have been made to get it working on real hardware too (only VM for now). Guillaume -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner@opensuse.org
Guillaume Gardet wrote:
Le 28/05/2015 10:26, Matwey V. Kornilov a écrit :
27.05.2015 15:32, Guillaume Gardet пишет:
I know that some work have been done to get openQA working on ARM through qemu, but also on real hardware.
What is working for now? I would like to perform some tests and maybe contribute, if I am able to do so. So, please share any hints/pointers that could help.
Can I run openQA on my own real hardware? I would like to use openQA images instead on JeOS ones to test openSUSE on by BeagleBone Black.
openQA just run ISO images (and maybe JeOS images for ARM now?) and compare expected screenshots to actual screenshots to check that all is OK (or not OK).
I think that some progress have been made to get it working on real hardware too (only VM for now).
The 'native' mode of operation for openQA is to use qemu to boot an installation medium or disk image. If qemu supports some 32bit device then openQA could use that to test. Such test results would only mean that the distro is good in general, it wouldn't tell anything about the state of any of the images for actual hardware though. The experimental real hardware support openqa currently has relies on a service processor that can turn on/off or reboot the machine and forward the graphics output with VNC protocol. Some x86 workstations nowadays offer that. Also the machine needs to be able to pxe boot as inserting physical cdroms automatically is a bit challenging :-) Last hackweek some guys tried to remove the need for PXE by using a beagle bone black as USB gadget to emulate usb storage. Since that also allows to emulate keyboard and mouse it's close to a service processor. What's still missing is the HDMI decoder to output VNC though. Would be cool if someone could build a device that can do all of that :-) cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Dilip Upmanyu, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner@opensuse.org
Hi Guillaume, 2015-05-27 14:32 GMT+02:00 Guillaume Gardet <guillaume.gardet@free.fr>:
I know that some work have been done to get openQA working on ARM through qemu, but also on real hardware.
That work was so far only on aarch64/kvm (e.g. running on aarch64 hardware inside a KVM virtual machine). If there is a working device emulation for any of the qemu versions that we maintain, it might be possible to expand that to qemu emulating a specific target device (but this is loosing the speed performance of KVM). it would be great to have that available, I agree, but we're not there yet. Greetings, Dirk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner@opensuse.org
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