run_tests freeze the centos 7 OS

[tjyang]

I have a test centos 7 VMWare VM and the test phase will hang the OS. May I know what is the OS dist/version that works ?

[pi@centos7 orgalorg]$ make
./run_tests
[build] building test go binary... ok.
[hastur] checking and initializing hastur...   -

[kovetskiy]

@tjyang wow, very strange. It works on Arch Linux.

[tjyang]

I have another centos 7 on vmware workstation which behave better. I was able to break out the haning test phase by control+C. The other one is on ESXi 5.5 which freeze the whole OS !!.

[seletskiy]

@tjyang: My best guess is that systemd-nspawn is not working properly inside ESXi.

Tests are based on the hastur, which by itself uses lightweight systemd-nspawn to launch isolated sshd instances.

hastur now only supports system with systemd-nspawn and pacman/pacstrap available (commonly, Arch Linux).