Re: [PULL 08/47] tests/avocado: ppc add hypervisor tests

[Peter Maydell]

On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 at 16:00, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The powernv and pseries machines both provide hypervisor facilities
> that are supported by KVM. This is a large and complicated set of
> features that don't get much system-level testing in ppc tests.
>
> Add a new test case for these which runs QEMU KVM inside the target.
> This downloads an Alpine VM image, boots it and downloads and installs
> the qemu package, then boots a virtual machine under it, re-using the
> original Alpine VM image.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>

This breaks running "make check-avocado" for ppc targets
if the host system doesn't have 'xorriso':

 (177/300) tests/avocado/ppc_hv_tests.py:HypervisorTest.test_hv_pseries:
ERROR: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'xorriso' (0.14 s)

Missing prerequisites should trigger the test to SKIP, not ERROR.

Bug filed with the avocado logfile details etc:
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2246

thanks
-- PMM