Re: [Xen-devel] [xen-unstable test] 108068: regressions - FAIL

[Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Jackson [mailto:ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 02 May 2017 14:44
> To: Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: 'Jan Beulich' <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>; Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>; xen-
> devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] [xen-unstable test] 108068: regressions - FAIL
> 
> Paul Durrant writes ("RE: [Xen-devel] [xen-unstable test] 108068: regressions
> - FAIL"):
> > In my experience Windows is usually consistent in its behaviour on power
> or sleep events so it's unlikely that it would reboot sometime and not others.
> > BTW, is this test really testing XP SP3? It's been out of support for a 
> > number
> of years now.
> 
>  2017-05-01 13:18:27 Z setting win_image=winxpsp3.iso
> 
> So, yes.
> 
> One option would be to simply drop the test, of course, but do we
> really think this is not a bug in something to do with us ?

It's very hard to say. There's nothing particularly conclusive in the logs. 
QEMU has definitely requested a reset as can be seen in 

http://logs.test-lab.xenproject.org/osstest/logs/108068/test-amd64-i386-xl-qemut-winxpsp3-vcpus1/italia0---var-log-xen-qemu-dm-win.guest.osstest--incoming.log

but really no clue why. The most obvious reason would be a BSOD in the OS, but 
without catching it in the act there's not much we can tell.

IMO testing OS that are so massively out of date is probably not worthwhile. If 
there is any real problem then I'd expect it to manifest across multiple 
versions of Windows and so other tests should catch such an issue.

  Paul

> 
> Ian.

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