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[Francois Gouget]

I upgraded and synchronized the configuration of all four VM hosts. 
So now they either all work great or are all broken ;-)

They are now all on Debian 8.6 with three pieces from backports:
 * The Linux kernel is now 4.8.11-1~bpo8+1.
 * The new kernel required linux-base to be upgraded to 4.3~bpo8+1.
 * QEMU is now 1:2.7+dfsg-3~bpo8+2.
 * libvirt is still 1.2.9-9+deb8u3 as there is nothing newer for Debian 
   8. This required using a small script to get it to play nice with 
   QEMU 2.7 (see attached file).

I synchronized their configuration by diffing their /etc directories and 
editing the files to remove differences (Cluster SSH is really nice for 
that). They should now essentially be identical (there's obvious 
differences in hostnames, ssh server keys, etc).

The upgrade and configuration syncing did not solve the performance 
issue on vm1 so that mystery is still intact.


The build VM went offline a few times. Fortunately it turns out it was 
my fault. What happened is that on december 16 the TestBot failed to 
recreate the wtb live snapshot. Given that the VM with in an unknown 
state I reverted it to the wtbbase8 powered off snapshot and recreated 
the live snapshot from that. However wtbbase8 still had the old 3.16 
kernel that was causing the build VM to regularly go offline. So this 
time I went back to wtbbase8, upgraded the kernel again, took a new 
wtbbase8.1 powered off snapshot for the next time I need one, and then 
recreated the wtb live snapshot.

Now the question is why did the TestBot fail to recreate the wtb 
snapshot? The only theory I have right now is that the network glitched 
somewhere between deleting the old snapshot and creating the new one. 
It's the first time this happened so hopefully it won't happen again any 
time soon. Still it at some point it would be nice to change the 
procedure to one that can just be re-run if it fails. That means 
reverting to a different snapshot than the one we delete and recreate.


Also as you can see from the WineTest results page the 64 bit Windows 8 
and Windows 10 VMs no longer crash while running WineTest.

* On w1064 Windows crash and reboot was caused by ntdll:exception. The 
  workaround is to tell kvm to ignore accesses to unsupported MSR. See 
  the links in TestBot bug 40240 for more details. Unfortunately this 
  needs to be set every time after boot and I forgot to do so when I did 
  the hosts upgrades. So there's a fe days gap. But I have now added an 
  init script that should take care of that automatically on boot.
  http://bugs.winehq.com/show_bug.cgi?id=40240

* On w864 the Windows freeze was caused by rasapi32:rasapi. The 
  workaround is to configure access to the VM through Spice rather than 
  VNC. Somehow this makes a difference for a bunch of tests even though 
  no client connects to the VM while it's running the tests. See the 
  TestBot bug 42185.
  https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42185


I also updated the TestBot test suite and put it up on GitHub. The 
wtbsuite as I call it is a set of patches that apply on top of Wine and 
which can be submitted in bulk to the TestBot to verify that it works as 
expected. The patches strive to exercise all the situations the TestBot 
can run into like patches that don't apply, build failures, timeouts, 
tests that crash, patch sets, etc. When appropriate the patches contain 
a reference to the relevant TestBot bug. You can find the test suite 
there:
https://github.com/fgouget/wine/tree/wtbsuite


-- 
Francois Gouget <fgouget at codeweavers.com>
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# Copyright 2016 Francois Gouget
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use warnings;

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for my $i (0..$#ARGV)
{
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    $isdrive = ($ARGV[$i] eq "-drive");
}

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exec { "$0.orig" } $0, @ARGV or die "could not exec $ARGV[0]\n";