Re: iotests failing on gitlab CI check-system-fedora job

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 18/03/21 11:07, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Mar 2021 at 23:26, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On 17/03/21 23:23, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > > The check-system-fedora job in the gitlab CI seems to have
> > > started reliably failing on iotests 040 041 127 256 267:
> > >    https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/jobs/1106977551
> > >
> > > Could somebody have a look at what's happening, please?
> > > (This is probably a regression that's got into master because
> > > I stopped using "did gitlab CI pass" as a gate because gitlab
> > > was running massively too slowly to be usable for that.)
> >
> > It's caused by adding virtio devices to the m68k target.  Probably it
> > can be fixed by moving i386-softmmu to Fedora and m68k-softmmu to Debian.
>
> Why are the iotests not specifying what machine type they run
> on if they care about the machine type ?

Because the intersection of people building only "uncommon" targets and 
people running "check-block" is usually empty.  Adjusting 
tests/qemu-iotests/testenv.py should be quite easy though.

Paolo