Avocado Virt Test Compatibility is a plugin that lets you execute virtualization related tests, with all conveniences provided by avocado.

Here's a reference guide on how to get the plugin setup and running, assuming you are using git repos for avocado and avocado-vt.

1. Make sure you have avocado and avocado-vt repositories cloned in the same dir. then you can execute our make link target:

   $ make link

2. Run the bootstrap procedure for the test backend (qemu, libvirt, v2v, openvswitch, among others) of your interest. We'll use qemu as an example:

   $ scripts/avocado vt-bootstrap --vt-type qemu

   That command will generate the following symlinks in your avocado source code dir (assuming you have only avocado-vt, and not avocado-virt):

   avocado/core/plugins/virt_test.py
   avocado/core/plugins/virt_test_list.py
   etc/avocado/conf.d/virt-test.conf
   virttest

3. Let's test if things went well by listing the avocado plugins. In the avocado source dir, do:

   $ scripts/avocado plugins

   That command should show the loaded plugins, and hopefully no errors. The relevant lines will be:

   virt_test_compat_bootstrap  Implements the avocado 'vt-bootstrap' subcommand
   virt_test_compat_runner  Implements the avocado virt test options
   virt_test_compat_lister  Implements the avocado virt test options

4. The next test is to see if virt-tests are also listed in the output of the command `avocado list`:

   $ scripts/avocado list --verbose

   This should list a large amount of tests (over 1900 virt related tests):

   ACCESS_DENIED: 0
   BROKEN_SYMLINK: 0
   BUGGY: 0
   INSTRUMENTED: 52
   MISSING: 0
   NOT_A_TEST: 27
   SIMPLE: 3
   VT: 1923

5. Assuming all is well, you can try running one virt-test:

   $ scripts/avocado run type_specific.io-github-autotest-qemu.migrate.default.tcp
   JOB ID     : <id>
   JOB LOG    : /home/<user>/avocado/job-results/job-2015-06-15T19.46-1c3da89/job.log
   JOB HTML   : /home/<user>/avocado/job-results/job-2015-06-15T19.46-1c3da89/html/results.html
   TESTS      : 1
   (1/1) type_specific.io-github-autotest-qemu.migrate.default.tcp: PASS (95.76 s)
   PASS       : 1
   ERROR      : 0
   FAIL       : 0
   SKIP       : 0
   WARN       : 0
   INTERRUPT  : 0
   TIME       : 95.76 s

If you have trouble executing the steps provided in this guide, you have a few options:

• Send an e-mail to the avocado mailing list.
• Open an issue on the avocado-vt github area.
• We also hang out on IRC (irc.oftc.net, #avocado).