Changeset 103237 in vbox for trunk/src/VBox/ValidationKit

Timestamp:

Feb 7, 2024 9:57:20 AM (10 months ago)

Author:

vboxsync

Message:

ValidationKit/testdriver/vboxtestvms.py: Don't filter out hwvirt-np for 7.0 on macOS because we would end up with no available virtualization mode skipping all testing, bugref:10592

File:

• trunk/src/VBox/ValidationKit/testdriver/vboxtestvms.py (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/src/VBox/ValidationKit/testdriver/vboxtestvms.py

@@ -1938 +1938 @@
                 asVirtModesWanted.remove('hwvirt');
 
-            if 'hwvirt-np' in asVirtModesWanted and not oTestDrv.hasHostNestedPaging():
+            # r=aeichner: For 7.0 there is no native API mode to set but NEM gets picked by default on macOS.
+            #             But because the darwin testboxes don't report the hwvirt or hwvirt-np capability anymore (see @bugref{10592})
+            #             this results in no virt mode being supported and all the VMs getting skipped (but the test marked as
+            #             succeeded anyway). In order to keep the default behavior we keep at least hwvirt-np on macOS which will
+            #             make use of NEM automatically and testing with 7.0 continues working.
+            if 'hwvirt-np' in asVirtModesWanted and not oTestDrv.hasHostNestedPaging() and utils.getHostOs() != 'darwin':
                 reporter.log('Nested paging not supported by the host, skipping it.');
                 asVirtModesWanted.remove('hwvirt-np');