On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 7:15 PM Cleber Rosa <cr...@redhat.com> wrote: > > The tests based on the LinuxTest class give the test writer a ready to > use guest operating system, currently pinned to Fedora 31. > > With this change, it's now possible to choose different distros and > versions, similar to how other tags and parameter can be set for the > target arch, accelerator, etc. > > One of the reasons for this work, is that some development features > depend on updates on the guest side. For instance the tests on > virtiofs_submounts.py, require newer kernels, and may benefit from > running, say on Fedora 34, without the need for a custom kernel. > > Please notice that the pre-caching of the Fedora 31 images done during > the early stages of `make check-acceptance` (before the tests are > actually executed) are not expanded here to cover every new image > added. But, the tests will download other needed images (and cache > them) during the first execution. > > Signed-off-by: Cleber Rosa <cr...@redhat.com> > --- > docs/devel/testing.rst | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++ > tests/acceptance/avocado_qemu/__init__.py | 47 ++++++++++++---- > 2 files changed, 102 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) >
Reviewed-by: Willian Rampazzo <willi...@redhat.com>
