On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 12:52:36PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 01:47:14PM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> 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:
What about passing 'false' to ConfigNew() but then manually
set 'cfg->privileged = true' on the object we get back.
That could work. All tests passed on my setup like that. And it
doesn't seem weird since we're playing with the config a lot in the
tests.
Martin