Basic workflow (needs update)

Framework for anaconda GUI testing.

Running anaconda+anabot manually

  1. Create anabot recipe xml and make it available for download via http. If unsure, you can look to examples. The simplest one is: examples/minimal.xml.

  2. Prepare updates.img with test.

$ ./make_updates.sh ~/public_html/dogtail.img

  1. Start anaconda with prepared anabot.img. Append on kernel cmdline:

    updates=http://myhost.example.com/~myuser/anabot.img graphical console=tty0 console=ttyS0 anabot=http://myhost.example.com/~myuser/recipe.xml

  • Anabot is started automatically via systemd. You can observe output of anabot using journalctl:

    $ journalctl -fu anabot-prepare
$ journalctl -fu anabot

  • If something went wrong, you can still put manually anaconda to desired state via GUI and then start anabot manually:

  1. prepare again updates.img on your system:

$ ./make_updates.sh ~/public_html/anabot.img

  1. On serial console of system run:

$ ./get_update.sh

  1. Start anabot:

$ ./start-anabot.py

  • To pause execution of anabot installation use <debug_stop /> tag in your recipe. To resume installation, touch /var/run/anabot/resume file.

Running anaconda+anabot in Beaker

There are modules for anabot which allow it to run in beaker environment and directly send results to beaker in real time. The module itself however embeds also configuration and knowledge about infrastructure and cannot be therefore documented here. Unfortunately, making it ready for open-sourcing is at the bottom of todo list.

Interactive python shell

To be able to use anabot in python shell to interact with anaconda directly, just execute script debug_dogtail.py available in /opt.

Anabot log

If testing anabot in virtual machine there is a way to reach the anabot log from the host machine.

  1. Open the target virtual machine in virt-manager and select virtual hardware settings tab.

  2. Click Add Hardware and select Channel.

  3. Switch device type to Output to a file (file).

  4. Modify Name to com.redhat.anabot.0.

  5. Select path where the log should be stored on the host system.