qemuimagetest: Use same image during sanity testing instead of copying a new image for each case

To reduce the time on sanity testing, we remove variable SHARE_IMAGE and use
a new variable TEST_SERIALIZE in local.conf. It is by default set to 1. Poky
will copy and boot the to-be tested image for only once. It will not remove
or kill the image and test cases will be serialized executed against the same
image. If it is set to 0, image is always be copied for each cases, which takes
much time. I had a experiment that latest qemuppc sato only takes 7 minutes to
finish 9 sanity test cases, which takes more than 20 minutes before.

I also removed sanity case "boot" from sato/sdk/lsb because the other cases for
these targets already cover the check point of "boot".

Signed-off-by Jiajun Xu <jiajun.xu@intel.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/meta/conf/local.conf.sample b/meta/conf/local.conf.sample
index cb0e54887f..4567a828ff 100644
--- a/meta/conf/local.conf.sample
+++ b/meta/conf/local.conf.sample
@@ -158,11 +158,11 @@ ENABLE_BINARY_LOCALE_GENERATION = "1"
 
 #Because of the QEMU booting slowness issue(see bug #646 and #618), autobuilder
 #may suffer a timeout issue when running sanity test. We introduce variable
-#SHARE_IMAGE here to fix the issue. It is by default set to 1. Poky will copy
-#latest built-out image and keep using it in sanity testing. If it is set to 0,
-#latest built-out image will be copied and tested for each case, which will take
-#much time.
-#SHARE_IMAGE = "1"
+#TEST_SERIALIZE here to reduce the time on sanity test. It is by default set 
+#to 1. Poky will start image and run cases in the same image without reboot 
+#or kill. If it is set to 0, the image will be copied and tested for each 
+#case, which will take much time.
+#TEST_SERIALIZE = "1"
 
 # Set GLIBC_GENERATE_LOCALES to the locales you wish to generate should you not
 # wish to perform the time-consuming step of generating all LIBC locales.