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@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ New
---
- Backport and enhancement of reporting
- PVP deployment scenario testing using vhost-cuse as guest access method
+- Implementation of LTD.Scalability.RFC2544.0PacketLoss testcase
+- Support for background load generation with command line tools like stress
+ and stress-ng
July 2015
=========
@@ -51,6 +54,5 @@ New
Missing
-------
-- Report generation is currently disabled
- xmlunit output is currently disabled
- VNF support.
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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-Installing toit
-===============
+Installing vswitchperf
+======================
The test suite requires Python 3.3 and relies on a number of other
packages. These need to be installed for the test suite to function. To
@@ -18,6 +18,14 @@ Enable Software Collections (SCL)
yum -y install scl-utils
yum -y install https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/python33/epel-7-x86_64/download/rhscl-python33-epel-7-x86_64.noarch.rpm
+(Optional) Enable Repoforge (for stress)
+----------------------------------------
+Allows optional installation of stress tool, which is required by load tests.
+
+ .. code-block:: console
+
+ yum -y install http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el7.rf.x86_64.rpm
+
System packages
-----------------
There are a number of packages that must be installed using `yum`. These can be installed like so:
@@ -26,6 +34,11 @@ There are a number of packages that must be installed using `yum`. These can be
yum -y --exclude=python33-mod_wsgi* install python33-* pciutils
+Optional installation of stress tool
+
+ .. code-block:: console
+
+ yum -y install stress
Python 3 Packages
-----------------