Kexec/Kdump Tests

[spmcmillan]

https://warthogs.atlassian.net/browse/PEK-852

Adding kexec/kdump tests for the host. This requires the host to be rebooted effectively multiple times. So, this was written as a shell script that can be used, eventually, in testflinger, or in a runner.

[frenchwr]

@spmcmillan Just making sure I understand before looking at the code - are these the first tests that need to be run remotely over ssh to the TDX host? If so do they need some sort of special treatment or category that is separate from existing test_host* tests (since the existing tests need to be run directly from the host while these new ones need to be run from a machine with ssh access to the host)? I guess eventually maybe all the tests could be run this way by invoking commands remotely over ssh?

[spmcmillan]

@spmcmillan Just making sure I understand before looking at the code - are these the first tests that need to be run remotely over ssh to the TDX host? If so do they need some sort of special treatment or category that is separate from existing test_host* tests (since the existing tests need to be run directly from the host while these new ones need to be run from a machine with ssh access to the host)? I guess eventually maybe all the tests could be run this way by invoking commands remotely over ssh?

Yes, these are probably the only tests that will need to be run remotely as they require the system to reboot or crash whenever they are invoked. I'm not sure the ideal place to put these. They won't be picked up by the pytests so they are already isolated and won't be included with the checkbox tests either. They are very special case and I can see them running on testflinger on the agent. I thought this was an ok to put them because they have the ".sh" extension. But, if you have other ideas please suggest them!

[frenchwr]

They won't be picked up by the pytests so they are already isolated and won't be included with the checkbox tests either.

Ah ok - I was thinking they would but I guess with the .sh extension tox/pytest will not pick them up. 👍

[frenchwr]

LGTM! I like the changes.

I've already resolved it