[xenpreview-dev] SUSE Xen 9762 live migration tests

[Martin Scholl]

John Byrne wrote:
> As I said, I was compiling the linux kernel in the domain. (In a loop.)
> Up until the 9762 software, this was quite unreliable. (Resulting in
> panics of the domain and application failures.) So the fact that I was
> able to do this was quite heartening for me.
> 
> What is needed now is some kind of stress/reliability test to guarantee
> that everything is actually correct instead of not just obviously
> broken, but I don't know what a good test will be off-hand.
In general I think it is a good idea to use a kernel compilation as a
macro test (the vmware document mentioned on /. used to use this test,
too :-) ).  A reliability/correctness-test that comes to my mind is to
check the compilated kernel against a pre-defined sha/md5sum or even to
check the object files (or at least kernel modules) against known
checksum values.


Martin