Hi, I noticed the test smbios_table.machine_type (in tp-qemu) failed on my aarch64 machine. After debugging, it turned out to be related to the machine type related code in Avocado-vt. So I want to bring it up for discussion.
Here is the analysis. In smbios_table.py, when traversal_machine_emulated = yes, it will retrieve all machine types supported by qemu_kvm. On my QEMU, the followings are the supported machine types: * virt * virt-rhel7.4.0 * none Use the first "virt" machine type as an example. The Avocado-vt code will use "virt" as the machine_type, instead of "arm64-pci" or "arm64-mmio". However this "virt" type doesn't work in many places of Avocado-vt code. For example, machine_by_params() function in qcontainer.py will not match it with any predefined machines. This cause the test failed to run. Using arm64-pci & arm64-mmio in Avocado-vt is fine. But I think how to translate the machine types in AArch64 QEMU binary to these two types need to be evaluated carefully. Thanks, -Wei