testdrive should give VM multiple cpu's, if available
Bug #570750 reported by
Dustin Kirkland
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TestDrive |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Dustin Kirkland | ||
| testdrive (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Wishlist
|
Dustin Kirkland | ||
Bug Description
By default, let's give the VM as many -smp CPUs as possible.
We'll add a KVM_SMP option, that the user can override. But if unset, let's count the N number of CPUs in the system, and add -smp N to the KVM_ARGS.
This should speed up guests considerably, on multi-core systems.
| Changed in testdrive: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| Changed in testdrive: | |
| status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
| Changed in testdrive (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Fix Committed |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| Changed in testdrive: | |
| assignee: | nobody → Dustin Kirkland (kirkland) |
| Changed in testdrive (Ubuntu): | |
| assignee: | nobody → Dustin Kirkland (kirkland) |
Revision history for this message
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in testdrive (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
| Changed in testdrive: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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This bug was fixed in the package testdrive - 2.0-0ubuntu1
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testdrive (2.0-0ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low
[ Andres Rodriguez ]
* testdrive, testdrive-gtk, testdrive.py, testdriverc: completely
overhaul organization of the code, making it more modular, in
prep for a GTK front end
* Actually remove testdrive-gtk because is was a testing script.
* Add testdrive-common package:
- debian/install: Moved to debian/
- debian/control:
+ Add python related fields, Build-Depends-Indep and Depends.
+ Add testdrive-common binary package.
+ Move python-launchpadlib Depends to testdrive-common, and
add as a Depend to testdrive binary package.
- debian/rules: Add pycentral rule.
- debian/
* Fix the failure of launching the local ISO. (LP: #581067)
[ Dustin Kirkland ]
* testdrive:
- clean up some unneeded trailing newlines,
- fix unexpanded %s in the help text, LP: #575326
- support running testdrive -u foo.img, against some existing
kvm qcow2 image (drop testdrive-kvm)
* testdriverc: update header info, clean up config file
* testdrive.install, testdrive.postinst, testdrive.preinst: handle
the conffile syntax change on upgrades
* testdrive, testdrive-kvm, testdrive.py, testdriverc: add -smp
support for kvm runs, LP: #570750
* doc/testdrive.1: add zync to the supported protocols list, LP: #577900
-- Andres Rodriguez <email address hidden> Fri, 14 May 2010 15:52:31 +0200