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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] [XM-TEST] Add support for VMX guests in xm-test

To: Ewan Mellor <ewan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] [XM-TEST] Add support for VMX guests in xm-test
From: Dan Smith <danms@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 06:33:55 -0800
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EM> I would like to see a separate XFAIL_TESTS_VMX or something like
EM> that, so that we can indicate which tests currently fail on VMX,
EM> and a separate DISABLED_TESTS_VMX to indicate those that will
EM> never pass on VMX.  What do you think?

So far, any test that detects that it is unable to run on the current
hardware SKIPs instead of FAIL.  For example, a test that requires
multiple physical CPUs and detects a single CPU box will call SKIP().
I think this is better than statically defining it in the Makefile,
since it's possible that a certain feature may be available later on
later revisions of VT hardware; the test would be the best place
(IMHO) to make that determination.

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Dan Smith
IBM Linux Technology Center
Open Hypervisor Team
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