Re: [Openstack-qa-team] Issues with soft reboot

2012-06-19 Thread David Kranz
Daryl, I agree. I sent this message after seeing some more soft reboot tests being posted. What I meant was that we should limit soft reboot tests to the ones that are testing that functionality specifically, as opposed to tests that try to do something or other during reboot. -David On 6/19

Re: [Openstack-qa-team] Issues with soft reboot

2012-06-19 Thread Daryl Walleck
Hi David, >From a time perspective I see what you're saying. However, there's an >important bit of functionality that is getting tested here: the fact that the >soft reboot works regardless of hyper visor. I've always aimed to make Tempest >hyper visor agnostic, and I would be hesitant to skip

[Openstack-qa-team] Issues with soft reboot

2012-06-19 Thread David Kranz
To help with the effort of making the Tempest suite run faster, we should avoid or skip the use of soft reboot in any tests, at least for now. The problem is that, according to Vish, soft reboot requires guest support. If the booted image doesn't have it, compute will wait (two minutes by defau