Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 2/3] tests: Only use privileged mode if Qemu user and group exists

On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 12:49:25PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote: >On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 10:09:59AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >>On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 04:40:24PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >>> On 04/07/2014 02:02 AM, Guido Günther wrote: >>> > When building packages in a clean chroot the QEMU_USER and QEMU_GROUP >>> > don't exist making VirQemuDriverConfigNew fail with privileged=true. >>> > >>> > Avoid that by not requiring priviliged mode and skipping tests that need >>> >>> s/priviliged/privileged/ >>> >>> > it. >>> > --- >>> > tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++-------- >>> > 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) >>> >>> Seems like this is what avoids the fail pointed out in 1/3. It still >>> feels fishy that our testsuite is that dependent on the system (ideally, >>> we'd provide a way to mock things up so that creating the config file >>> NEVER fails when run from the testsuite, even if the uid doesn't exist - >>> because we shouldn't be probing the live system, only our mockups). I'd >>> wait for a second opinion on whether this patch is papering over a >>> bigger problem of depending on the current system state, or whether it >>> is an acceptable way to avoid the issue without investing the effort to >>> tackle at the uid lookup level. >> >>IMHO we should be passing privileged == false unconditionally, so that >>we always skip any magic username lookups. > >I would have done that but Martin's 29151830e468f1a9d8006a62702591958a4e3481 >did the opposite, so o.k. to revert that? Reverting that will make *tune tests fail. We could, however, create our own test config instead of virQEMUDriverConfigNew() or add a parameter to it which will decide on what to do, the least being: