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| -rw-r--r-- | tests/acceptance/virtiofs_submounts.py | 12 |
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diff --git a/tests/acceptance/virtiofs_submounts.py b/tests/acceptance/virtiofs_submounts.py index 949ca87a83..9a69b6b17b 100644 --- a/tests/acceptance/virtiofs_submounts.py +++ b/tests/acceptance/virtiofs_submounts.py @@ -228,6 +228,18 @@ class VirtiofsSubmountsTest(BootLinux): def setUp(self): vmlinuz = self.params.get('vmlinuz') if vmlinuz is None: + """ + The Linux kernel supports FUSE auto-submounts only as of 5.10. + boot_linux.py currently provides Fedora 31, whose kernel is too + old, so this test cannot pass with the on-image kernel (you are + welcome to try, hence the option to force such a test with + -p vmlinuz=''). Therefore, for now the user must provide a + sufficiently new custom kernel, or effectively explicitly + request failure with -p vmlinuz=''. + Once an image with a sufficiently new kernel is available + (probably Fedora 34), we can make -p vmlinuz='' the default, so + that this parameter no longer needs to be specified. + """ self.cancel('vmlinuz parameter not set; you must point it to a ' 'Linux kernel binary to test (to run this test with ' \ 'the on-image kernel, set it to an empty string)') |