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On Feb 9, 2014, at 4:10 PM, CARVER, PAUL <pc2929 at att.com> wrote:

> Kyle Mestery wrote: 
> 
>> So, in general I don't think this will fly because it's my understanding the
>> OpenStack servers only test fully open source code. Allowing a third party
>> vendor system to run on the OpenStack servers as part of any functional
>> testing would open an entirely new can of worms here. I would suggest
>> asking this question on #openstack-infra as well for clarity since I don't see
>> a response on the mailing list yet.
> 
> How does the current testing work with any of the hardware drivers?
> I just read Jay Pipe's excellent blog post [1] on the general setup and
> function of the CI system, but it only explained the software parts.
> 
> I could not extrapolate from the article anything about how it works
> In the context of Neutron drivers that are supposed to configure
> physical networking hardware or even software components
> such as Nicira's or PlugGrid's gateways.
> 
Each vendor can control this themselves. Some vendors choose to run
Tempest against a virtual environment instead of actual hardware, I
suspect. At the end of the day, if it’s testing the requisite functionality,
it shouldn’t matter.

Thanks,
Kyle

> 
> [1] http://www.joinfu.com/2014/01/understanding-the-openstack-ci-system/
> 
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