Re: [Xen-API] xen-api build and test environment

["Zhai, Edwin" <edwin.zhai@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2014, Dave Scott wrote:

> Hi Edwin,
>
> On 16 Apr 2014, at 11:36, Zhai, Edwin <edwin.zhai@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > All,
> > We are trying to add some new feature in xen-api and test in openstack 
> > environment. But build xen-api accroding to README.markdown at 
> > https://github.com/xapi-project/xen-api.git on ubuntu 12.04 always failed. 
> > There are dependences not in documents, like blktap-dev, and also some basic 
> > build failure, like obuild.
> >
> > Just curious how xen-api developer do the build? Build it stand-alone, or with 
> > xenserver? Do you have frequent fresh build test?
> For components like ‘xenopsd’, ‘xcp-networkd’ etc I prefer to install all the 
> dependencies in CentOS (or Debian) via xenserver-core[1]. I can then clone the repo and build the binaries.
>
> For ‘xapi’ itself the xenserver-core .spec file references a branch with a couple of 
> build fixes in it. These need to be tidied up and merged to master— Bob Ball (cc:d) and I are 
> trying to sort this out.
Qiaowei is trying this according to Bob's instruction. Pls. let us know if you 
guys have fix.
> I think we should try to create a ‘vagrant box’ configuration to help people set this 
> up — what do you think?
It is a good idea, and can help new developer to setup environment via fresh 
build. Otherwise, we need answer questions for many times.
> > Another question is how you do the test? Do you have some simple unit test 
> > tools to verify API function, or you test it in XCP environment?
> For ‘xapi’, there are a few unit tests which run as part of the build. There’s also a program 
> called ‘quicktest’ (in the xen-api repo) which can install VMs, suspend/resume, migrate etc. After 
> that we normally run system tests via xenrt[2]
It's helpful info. Thanks.

> > Do you have plan do do some test in openstack environment? You know, libvirt in 
> > openstack doesn't support xen well.
> I think xapi is tested as part of the XenServer openstack CI[3]
Yes. But I believe XenServer openstack use release version instead of latest git 
code. Is it possible to run some test for it, and fix bugs. Or it should be 
responsibility of openstack?
> HTH,
> Dave
> [1] https://github.com/xenserver/xenserver-core
> [2] 
> http://www.xenserver.org/discuss-virtualization/virtualization-blog/entry/introducing-open-source-xenrt.html
> [3] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/XenServer/XenServer_CI
>
> > Best Rgds,
> > Edwin
> >
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Best Rgds,
Edwin

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