tests: do not run qemu interface tests if the environment does not allow it

cdf73b973181ff4c67147900408216e37bae897a has added the qemu tests as part of the default test run,
which results in "make test" failure in more restricted environments which do not allow the
namespace creation.

Add a config flag to skip those tests, and skip them if the namespace creation fails.

Type: test
Signed-off-by: Andrew Yourtchenko <ayourtch@gmail.com>
Change-Id: Ie631f7fb2a80864f77c79619eba4a43712e950e5

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/test/vpp_qemu_utils.py b/test/vpp_qemu_utils.py
index 5c433201650..cb1a0dd9f4c 100644
--- a/test/vpp_qemu_utils.py
+++ b/test/vpp_qemu_utils.py
@@ -6,6 +6,22 @@ import subprocess
 import sys
 
 
+def can_create_namespaces():
+    """Check if the environment allows creating the namespaces"""
+
+    try:
+        namespace = "vpp_chk_4212"
+        result = subprocess.run(["ip", "netns", "add", namespace], capture_output=True)
+        if result.returncode != 0:
+            return False
+        result = subprocess.run(["ip", "netns", "del", namespace], capture_output=True)
+        if result.returncode != 0:
+            return False
+        return True
+    except:
+        return False
+
+
 def create_namespace(ns):
     """create one or more namespaces.
 
@@ -18,7 +34,9 @@ def create_namespace(ns):
         namespaces = ns
     try:
         for namespace in namespaces:
-            subprocess.run(["ip", "netns", "add", namespace])
+            result = subprocess.run(["ip", "netns", "add", namespace])
+            if result.returncode != 0:
+                raise Exception(f"Error while creating namespace {namespace}")
     except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
         raise Exception("Error creating namespace:", e.output)
 
@@ -207,7 +225,11 @@ def delete_namespace(namespaces):
     """
     try:
         for namespace in namespaces:
-            subprocess.run(["ip", "netns", "del", namespace], capture_output=True)
+            result = subprocess.run(
+                ["ip", "netns", "del", namespace], capture_output=True
+            )
+            if result.returncode != 0:
+                raise Exception(f"Error while deleting namespace {namespace}")
     except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
         raise Exception("Error deleting namespace:", e.output)