Hi folks, As we know the Debian CI Infrastructure, which runs autopkgtest upon relevant package updates to help us improve distribution quality. However, it still doesn't support the isolation-machine feature, which associates to tests that require interaction with the kernel, such as kernel module tests.
zfs-linux has one of such tests. The test loads the zfs kernel module and trys to do smoke tests such as creating zpools: https://salsa.debian.org/zfsonlinux-team/zfs/blob/master/debian/tests/control#L1-2 For quite a long time debian CI keeps skipping this test, e.g. https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/amd64/z/zfs-linux/2068033/log.gz | kernel-smoke-test SKIP Test requires machine-level isolation but testbed does not provide that | dkms-zfs-test PASS I have two questions given the background: (1) What is the support status for "isolation-machine" feature? (2) Is it a good idea to write a test script, that manually sets up a qemu VM then tests the module[1]? (Such that we can get rid of the isolation-machine restriction, and make Debian CI test the ZFS kernel module) Or any better idea? [1] thanks to @zhsj for a hint: This can be implemented by setting up a qemu VM with exported ssh port.
