This page describes a proposed automated testing infrastructure for KVM and potentially other full virtualization software (Xen HVM, QEMU).

Requirements

1. Must easily support a large number of guest types
   1. BSDs, Windows, Linux varieties
2. Must at least support a basic validation of boot
   1. Should support regression testing within the guest
3. Must be capable of performing host validation while guest is running
4. Should not require frequent updates of guest images

Ideas

A small daemon that is launched at startup in a guest. For Unix, it would be an init.d service. For Windows, it would be a startup program. It communicates with the host via PIO. A simple polling mechanism can proxy a socket. The program should download tests into the guest upon launch and run them feeding the output back to the host. The package should be easily installable in a guest (available via an ISO image) and adding guests should be a matter of putting a launch script within a directory. The data from the guest can be exposed via a CharDriver in QEMU such that a launching program can control all of the created guests.