“Delivering a well working distribution is hard. There are a lot of different hardware platforms that need to be verified and the software stack is in a big flux during development phases. In rolling releases, this gets even worse, as nothing ever stands still. The only sane answer to that problem are working Continuous Integration tests. The SUSE way to check whether any change breaks normal distribution behavior is OpenQA. Using OpenQA we can automatically run tests that hard working QA people did manually in the old days. That way we have fast enough turnaround times to find and reject breaking changes This session shows how OpenQA works, what pitfalls we had to make ARM work with OpenQA and what we’re doing to improve it for ARM specific use cases.”

1. Distribution CI using
QEMU and OpenQA

2. About Me
• Alexander Graf
• KVM and QEMU developer for SUSE
• Server class PowerPC KVM port
• Nested SVM
• Founding member of SUSE ARM team

12. Insert SD Card
Boot system
Click “yes” on
license question
…

13. Insert SD Card
Boot system
Click “yes” on
license question
…

14. Insert SD Card
Boot system
Click “yes” on
license question
…

15. Insert SD Card
Boot system
Click “yes” on
license question
…

16. Insert SD Card
Boot system
Click “yes” on
license question
…

17. Insert SD Card
Boot system
Click “yes” on
license question
…

19. OpenQA

20. OpenQA
[…]
wait_for_screen
type “enter”
wait_for_screen
type “enter”
[…]

21. OpenQA
[…]
wait_for_screen
type “enter”
wait_for_screen
type “enter”
[…]

22. O

23. O

24. O
staging

25. O
staging

26. O
staging
O
staging
O
staging
O
staging

27. O O O O O O O OO O O O O O O OO O O O O O O O

28. O O O O O O O OO O O O O O O OO O O O O O O O

29. O

31. Frame Buffer BARRegisters

32. Frame Buffer BAR RegistersRAM

33. Frame Buffer BAR RegistersRAM

34. Frame Buffer BAR RegistersRAM

35. Frame Buffer BAR RegistersRAM

36. Frame Buffer BAR RegistersRAM

37. Frame Buffer BAR RegistersRAM

38. Frame Buffer BAR RegistersRAM

39. Frame Buffer BAR RegistersRAM

40. RegistersRAM
virtio-gpu

41. RegistersRAM
virtio-gpu

42. RegistersRAM
virtio-gpu

43. O O O O O O O OO O O O O O O OO O O O O O O O

44. O O O O O O O OO O O O O O O OO O O O O O O O

45. O O O O O O O OO O O O O O O OO O O O O O O O

46. O
[…]
wait_for_screen
* timeout 1s *
[…]

47. O
[…]
wait_for_screen
* timeout 1s *
[…]

48. O

49. O

50. O

51. O

52. The Future

53. O
-M virt

54. O
-M virt

55. O
-M virt

56. O
-M virt

57. O
-M

58. O

60. Thank You

61. Icons
http://findicons.com/icon/64170/package
http://findicons.com/icon/72774/kiwi
https://pixabay.com/en/surprised-salaried-worker-computer-1184889/
https://pixabay.com/en/monitor-screen-flat-lcd-black-32743/
https://pixabay.com/en/keyboard-computer-mouse-office-154116/

62. Icons
https://pixabay.com/en/computer-server-workstation-hosting-158474/
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crystal_Project_Hardware.png
https://pixabay.com/en/ram-memory-computer-chips-icon-98420/
https://pixabay.com/en/board-chip-hardware-switch-152653/
https://stockarch.com/images/technology/ps2-connector-2898

63. OSA Icons
Icons received from http://www.opensecurityarchitecture.org/cms/library/icon-library