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+import time, os, sys, urllib, re, signal, logging, datetime, glob, ConfigParser
+import shutil
+from autotest_lib.client.bin import utils, test, os_dep
+from autotest_lib.client.common_lib import error
+import kvm_utils
+
+
+def check_configure_options(script_path):
+    """
+    Return the list of available options (flags) of a given kvm configure build
+    script.
+
+    @param script: Path to the configure script
+    """
+    abspath = os.path.abspath(script_path)
+    help_raw = utils.system_output('%s --help' % abspath, ignore_status=True)
+    help_output = help_raw.split("\n")
+    option_list = []
+    for line in help_output:
+        cleaned_line = line.lstrip()
+        if cleaned_line.startswith("--"):
+            option = cleaned_line.split()[0]
+            option = option.split("=")[0]
+            option_list.append(option)
+
+    return option_list
+
+
+def kill_qemu_processes():
+    """
+    Kills all qemu processes, also kills all processes holding /dev/kvm down.
+    """
+    logging.debug("Killing any qemu processes that might be left behind")
+    utils.system("pkill qemu", ignore_status=True)
+    # Let's double check to see if some other process is holding /dev/kvm
+    if os.path.isfile("/dev/kvm"):
+        utils.system("fuser -k /dev/kvm", ignore_status=True)
+
+
+def cpu_vendor():
+    vendor = "intel"
+    if os.system("grep vmx /proc/cpuinfo 1>/dev/null") != 0:
+        vendor = "amd"
+    logging.debug("Detected CPU vendor as '%s'" %(vendor))
+    return vendor
+
+
+def _unload_kvm_modules(mod_list):
+    logging.info("Unloading previously loaded KVM modules")
+    for module in reversed(mod_list):
+        utils.unload_module(module)
+
+
+def _load_kvm_modules(mod_list, module_dir=None, load_stock=False):
+    """
+    Just load the KVM modules, without killing Qemu or unloading previous
+    modules.
+
+    Load modules present on any sub directory of module_dir. Function will walk
+    through module_dir until it finds the modules.
+
+    @param module_dir: Directory where the KVM modules are located.
+    @param load_stock: Whether we are going to load system kernel modules.
+    @param extra_modules: List of extra modules to load.
+    """
+    if module_dir:
+        logging.info("Loading the built KVM modules...")
+        kvm_module_path = None
+        kvm_vendor_module_path = None
+        abort = False
+
+        list_modules = ['%s.ko' % (m) for m in mod_list]
+
+        list_module_paths = []
+        for folder, subdirs, files in os.walk(module_dir):
+            for module in list_modules:
+                if module in files:
+                    module_path = os.path.join(folder, module)
+                    list_module_paths.append(module_path)
+
+        # We might need to arrange the modules in the correct order
+        # to avoid module load problems
+        list_modules_load = []
+        for module in list_modules:
+            for module_path in list_module_paths:
+                if os.path.basename(module_path) == module:
+                    list_modules_load.append(module_path)
+
+        if len(list_module_paths) != len(list_modules):
+            logging.error("KVM modules not found. If you don't want to use the "
+                          "modules built by this test, make sure the option "
+                          "load_modules: 'no' is marked on the test control "
+                          "file.")
+            raise error.TestError("The modules %s were requested to be loaded, "
+                                  "but the only modules found were %s" %
+                                  (list_modules, list_module_paths))
+
+        for module_path in list_modules_load:
+            try:
+                utils.system("insmod %s" % module_path)
+            except Exception, e:
+                raise error.TestFail("Failed to load KVM modules: %s" % e)
+
+    if load_stock:
+        logging.info("Loading current system KVM modules...")
+        for module in mod_list:
+            utils.system("modprobe %s" % module)
+
+
+def create_symlinks(test_bindir, prefix=None, bin_list=None, unittest=None):
+    """
+    Create symbolic links for the appropriate qemu and qemu-img commands on
+    the kvm test bindir.
+
+    @param test_bindir: KVM test bindir
+    @param prefix: KVM prefix path
+    @param bin_list: List of qemu binaries to link
+    @param unittest: Path to configuration file unittests.cfg
+    """
+    qemu_path = os.path.join(test_bindir, "qemu")
+    qemu_img_path = os.path.join(test_bindir, "qemu-img")
+    qemu_unittest_path = os.path.join(test_bindir, "unittests")
+    if os.path.lexists(qemu_path):
+        os.unlink(qemu_path)
+    if os.path.lexists(qemu_img_path):
+        os.unlink(qemu_img_path)
+    if unittest and os.path.lexists(qemu_unittest_path):
+        os.unlink(qemu_unittest_path)
+
+    logging.debug("Linking qemu binaries")
+
+    if bin_list:
+        for bin in bin_list:
+            if os.path.basename(bin) == 'qemu-kvm':
+                os.symlink(bin, qemu_path)
+            elif os.path.basename(bin) == 'qemu-img':
+                os.symlink(bin, qemu_img_path)
+
+    elif prefix:
+        kvm_qemu = os.path.join(prefix, "bin", "qemu-system-x86_64")
+        if not os.path.isfile(kvm_qemu):
+            raise error.TestError('Invalid qemu path')
+        kvm_qemu_img = os.path.join(prefix, "bin", "qemu-img")
+        if not os.path.isfile(kvm_qemu_img):
+            raise error.TestError('Invalid qemu-img path')
+        os.symlink(kvm_qemu, qemu_path)
+        os.symlink(kvm_qemu_img, qemu_img_path)
+
+    if unittest:
+        logging.debug("Linking unittest dir")
+        os.symlink(unittest, qemu_unittest_path)
+
+
+def install_roms(rom_dir, prefix):
+    logging.debug("Path to roms specified. Copying roms to install prefix")
+    rom_dst_dir = os.path.join(prefix, 'share', 'qemu')
+    for rom_src in glob.glob('%s/*.bin' % rom_dir):
+        rom_dst = os.path.join(rom_dst_dir, os.path.basename(rom_src))
+        logging.debug("Copying rom file %s to %s", rom_src, rom_dst)
+        shutil.copy(rom_src, rom_dst)
+
+
+def save_build(build_dir, dest_dir):
+    logging.debug('Saving the result of the build on %s', dest_dir)
+    base_name = os.path.basename(build_dir)
+    tarball_name = base_name + '.tar.bz2'
+    os.chdir(os.path.dirname(build_dir))
+    utils.system('tar -cjf %s %s' % (tarball_name, base_name))
+    shutil.move(tarball_name, os.path.join(dest_dir, tarball_name))
+
+
+class KvmInstallException(Exception):
+    pass
+
+
+class FailedKvmInstall(KvmInstallException):
+    pass
+
+
+class KvmNotInstalled(KvmInstallException):
+    pass
+
+
+class BaseInstaller(object):
+    # default value for load_stock argument
+    load_stock_modules = True
+    def __init__(self, mode=None):
+        self.install_mode = mode
+        self._full_module_list = None
+
+    def set_install_params(self, test, params):
+        self.params = params
+
+        load_modules = params.get('load_modules', 'no')
+        if not load_modules or load_modules == 'yes':
+            self.should_load_modules = True
+        elif load_modules == 'no':
+            self.should_load_modules = False
+        default_extra_modules = str(None)
+        self.extra_modules = eval(params.get("extra_modules",
+                                             default_extra_modules))
+
+        self.cpu_vendor = cpu_vendor()
+
+        self.srcdir = test.srcdir
+        if not os.path.isdir(self.srcdir):
+            os.makedirs(self.srcdir)
+
+        self.test_bindir = test.bindir
+        self.results_dir = test.resultsdir
+
+        # KVM build prefix, for the modes that do need it
+        prefix = os.path.join(test.bindir, 'build')
+        self.prefix = os.path.abspath(prefix)
+
+        # Current host kernel directory
+        default_host_kernel_source = '/lib/modules/%s/build' % os.uname()[2]
+        self.host_kernel_srcdir = params.get('host_kernel_source',
+                                             default_host_kernel_source)
+
+        # Extra parameters that can be passed to the configure script
+        self.extra_configure_options = params.get('extra_configure_options',
+                                                  None)
+
+        # Do we want to save the result of the build on test.resultsdir?
+        self.save_results = True
+        save_results = params.get('save_results', 'no')
+        if save_results == 'no':
+            self.save_results = False
+
+        self._full_module_list = list(self._module_list())
+
+
+    def full_module_list(self):
+        """Return the module list used by the installer
+
+        Used by the module_probe test, to avoid using utils.unload_module().
+        """
+        if self._full_module_list is None:
+            raise KvmNotInstalled("KVM modules not installed yet (installer: %s)" % (type(self)))
+        return self._full_module_list
+
+
+    def _module_list(self):
+        """Generate the list of modules that need to be loaded
+        """
+        yield 'kvm'
+        yield 'kvm-%s' % (self.cpu_vendor)
+        if self.extra_modules:
+            for module in self.extra_modules:
+                yield module
+
+
+    def _load_modules(self, mod_list):
+        """
+        Load the KVM modules
+
+        May be overridden by subclasses.
+        """
+        _load_kvm_modules(mod_list, load_stock=self.load_stock_modules)
+
+
+    def load_modules(self, mod_list=None):
+        if mod_list is None:
+            mod_list = self.full_module_list()
+        self._load_modules(mod_list)
+
+
+    def _unload_modules(self, mod_list=None):
+        """
+        Just unload the KVM modules, without trying to kill Qemu
+        """
+        if mod_list is None:
+            mod_list = self.full_module_list()
+        _unload_kvm_modules(mod_list)
+
+
+    def unload_modules(self, mod_list=None):
+        """
+        Kill Qemu and unload the KVM modules
+        """
+        kill_qemu_processes()
+        self._unload_modules(mod_list)
+
+
+    def reload_modules(self):
+        """
+        Reload the KVM modules after killing Qemu and unloading the current modules
+        """
+        self.unload_modules()
+        self.load_modules()
+
+
+    def reload_modules_if_needed(self):
+        if self.should_load_modules:
+            self.reload_modules()
+
+
+class YumInstaller(BaseInstaller):
+    """
+    Class that uses yum to install and remove packages.
+    """
+    load_stock_modules = True
+    def set_install_params(self, test, params):
+        super(YumInstaller, self).set_install_params(test, params)
+        # Checking if all required dependencies are available
+        os_dep.command("rpm")
+        os_dep.command("yum")
+
+        default_pkg_list = str(['qemu-kvm', 'qemu-kvm-tools'])
+        default_qemu_bin_paths = str(['/usr/bin/qemu-kvm', '/usr/bin/qemu-img'])
+        default_pkg_path_list = str(None)
+        self.pkg_list = eval(params.get("pkg_list", default_pkg_list))
+        self.pkg_path_list = eval(params.get("pkg_path_list",
+                                             default_pkg_path_list))
+        self.qemu_bin_paths = eval(params.get("qemu_bin_paths",
+                                              default_qemu_bin_paths))
+
+
+    def _clean_previous_installs(self):
+        kill_qemu_processes()
+        removable_packages = ""
+        for pkg in self.pkg_list:
+            removable_packages += " %s" % pkg
+
+        utils.system("yum remove -y %s" % removable_packages)
+
+
+    def _get_packages(self):
+        for pkg in self.pkg_path_list:
+            utils.get_file(pkg, os.path.join(self.srcdir,
+                                             os.path.basename(pkg)))
+
+
+    def _install_packages(self):
+        """
+        Install all downloaded packages.
+        """
+        os.chdir(self.srcdir)
+        utils.system("yum install --nogpgcheck -y *.rpm")
+
+
+    def install(self):
+        self._clean_previous_installs()
+        self._get_packages()
+        self._install_packages()
+        create_symlinks(test_bindir=self.test_bindir,
+                        bin_list=self.qemu_bin_paths)
+        self.reload_modules_if_needed()
+        if self.save_results:
+            save_build(self.srcdir, self.results_dir)
+
+
+class KojiInstaller(YumInstaller):
+    """
+    Class that handles installing KVM from the fedora build service, koji.
+    It uses yum to install and remove packages.
+    """
+    load_stock_modules = True
+    def set_install_params(self, test, params):
+        """
+        Gets parameters and initializes the package downloader.
+
+        @param test: kvm test object
+        @param params: Dictionary with test arguments
+        """
+        super(KojiInstaller, self).set_install_params(test, params)
+        default_koji_cmd = '/usr/bin/koji'
+        default_src_pkg = 'qemu'
+        self.src_pkg = params.get("src_pkg", default_src_pkg)
+        self.tag = params.get("koji_tag", None)
+        self.build = params.get("koji_build", None)
+        self.koji_cmd = params.get("koji_cmd", default_koji_cmd)
+
+
+    def _get_packages(self):
+        """
+        Downloads the specific arch RPMs for the specific build name.
+        """
+        downloader = kvm_utils.KojiDownloader(cmd=self.koji_cmd)
+        downloader.get(src_package=self.src_pkg, tag=self.tag,
+                            build=self.build, dst_dir=self.srcdir)
+
+
+    def install(self):
+        super(KojiInstaller, self)._clean_previous_installs()
+        self._get_packages()
+        super(KojiInstaller, self)._install_packages()
+        create_symlinks(test_bindir=self.test_bindir,
+                        bin_list=self.qemu_bin_paths)
+        self.reload_modules_if_needed()
+        if self.save_results:
+            save_build(self.srcdir, self.results_dir)
+
+
+class SourceDirInstaller(BaseInstaller):
+    """
+    Class that handles building/installing KVM directly from a tarball or
+    a single source code dir.
+    """
+    def set_install_params(self, test, params):
+        """
+        Initializes class attributes, and retrieves KVM code.
+
+        @param test: kvm test object
+        @param params: Dictionary with test arguments
+        """
+        super(SourceDirInstaller, self).set_install_params(test, params)
+
+        self.mod_install_dir = os.path.join(self.prefix, 'modules')
+        self.installed_kmods = False  # it will be set to True in case we
+                                      # installed our own modules
+
+        srcdir = params.get("srcdir", None)
+        self.path_to_roms = params.get("path_to_rom_images", None)
+
+        if self.install_mode == 'localsrc':
+            if srcdir is None:
+                raise error.TestError("Install from source directory specified"
+                                      "but no source directory provided on the"
+                                      "control file.")
+            else:
+                shutil.copytree(srcdir, self.srcdir)
+
+        if self.install_mode == 'release':
+            release_tag = params.get("release_tag")
+            release_dir = params.get("release_dir")
+            release_listing = params.get("release_listing")
+            logging.info("Installing KVM from release tarball")
+            if not release_tag:
+                release_tag = kvm_utils.get_latest_kvm_release_tag(
+                                                                release_listing)
+            tarball = os.path.join(release_dir, 'kvm', release_tag,
+                                   "kvm-%s.tar.gz" % release_tag)
+            logging.info("Retrieving release kvm-%s" % release_tag)
+            tarball = utils.unmap_url("/", tarball, "/tmp")
+
+        elif self.install_mode == 'snapshot':
+            logging.info("Installing KVM from snapshot")
+            snapshot_dir = params.get("snapshot_dir")
+            if not snapshot_dir:
+                raise error.TestError("Snapshot dir not provided")
+            snapshot_date = params.get("snapshot_date")
+            if not snapshot_date:
+                # Take yesterday's snapshot
+                d = (datetime.date.today() -
+                     datetime.timedelta(1)).strftime("%Y%m%d")
+            else:
+                d = snapshot_date
+            tarball = os.path.join(snapshot_dir, "kvm-snapshot-%s.tar.gz" % d)
+            logging.info("Retrieving kvm-snapshot-%s" % d)
+            tarball = utils.unmap_url("/", tarball, "/tmp")
+
+        elif self.install_mode == 'localtar':
+            tarball = params.get("tarball")
+            if not tarball:
+                raise error.TestError("KVM Tarball install specified but no"
+                                      " tarball provided on control file.")
+            logging.info("Installing KVM from a local tarball")
+            logging.info("Using tarball %s")
+            tarball = utils.unmap_url("/", params.get("tarball"), "/tmp")
+
+        if self.install_mode in ['release', 'snapshot', 'localtar']:
+            utils.extract_tarball_to_dir(tarball, self.srcdir)
+
+        if self.install_mode in ['release', 'snapshot', 'localtar', 'srcdir']:
+            self.repo_type = kvm_utils.check_kvm_source_dir(self.srcdir)
+            configure_script = os.path.join(self.srcdir, 'configure')
+            self.configure_options = check_configure_options(configure_script)
+
+
+    def _build(self):
+        make_jobs = utils.count_cpus()
+        os.chdir(self.srcdir)
+        # For testing purposes, it's better to build qemu binaries with
+        # debugging symbols, so we can extract more meaningful stack traces.
+        cfg = "./configure --prefix=%s" % self.prefix
+        if "--disable-strip" in self.configure_options:
+            cfg += " --disable-strip"
+        steps = [cfg, "make clean", "make -j %s" % make_jobs]
+        logging.info("Building KVM")
+        for step in steps:
+            utils.system(step)
+
+
+    def _install_kmods_old_userspace(self, userspace_path):
+        """
+        Run the module install command.
+
+        This is for the "old userspace" code, that contained a 'kernel' subdirectory
+        with the kmod build code.
+
+        The code would be much simpler if we could specify the module install
+        path as parameter to the toplevel Makefile. As we can't do that and
+        the module install code doesn't use --prefix, we have to call
+        'make -C kernel install' directly, setting the module directory
+        parameters.
+
+        If the userspace tree doens't have a 'kernel' subdirectory, the
+        module install step will be skipped.
+
+        @param userspace_path: the path the kvm-userspace directory
+        """
+        kdir = os.path.join(userspace_path, 'kernel')
+        if os.path.isdir(kdir):
+            os.chdir(kdir)
+            # INSTALLDIR is the target dir for the modules
+            # ORIGMODDIR is the dir where the old modules will be removed. we
+            #            don't want to mess with the system modules, so set it
+            #            to a non-existing directory
+            utils.system('make install INSTALLDIR=%s ORIGMODDIR=/tmp/no-old-modules' % (self.mod_install_dir))
+            self.installed_kmods = True
+
+
+    def _install_kmods(self, kmod_path):
+        """Run the module install command for the kmod-kvm repository
+
+        @param kmod_path: the path to the kmod-kvm.git working copy
+        """
+        os.chdir(kmod_path)
+        utils.system('make modules_install DESTDIR=%s' % (self.mod_install_dir))
+        self.installed_kmods = True
+
+
+    def _install(self):
+        os.chdir(self.srcdir)
+        logging.info("Installing KVM userspace")
+        if self.repo_type == 1:
+            utils.system("make -C qemu install")
+            self._install_kmods_old_userspace(self.srcdir)
+        elif self.repo_type == 2:
+            utils.system("make install")
+        if self.path_to_roms:
+            install_roms(self.path_to_roms, self.prefix)
+        create_symlinks(self.test_bindir, self.prefix)
+
+
+    def _load_modules(self, mod_list):
+        # load the installed KVM modules in case we installed them
+        # ourselves. Otherwise, just load the system modules.
+        if self.installed_kmods:
+            logging.info("Loading installed KVM modules")
+            _load_kvm_modules(mod_list, module_dir=self.mod_install_dir)
+        else:
+            logging.info("Loading stock KVM modules")
+            _load_kvm_modules(mod_list, load_stock=True)
+
+
+    def install(self):
+        self._build()
+        self._install()
+        self.reload_modules_if_needed()
+        if self.save_results:
+            save_build(self.srcdir, self.results_dir)
+
+
+class GitInstaller(SourceDirInstaller):
+    def _pull_code(self):
+        """
+        Retrieves code from git repositories.
+        """
+        params = self.params
+
+        kernel_repo = params.get("git_repo")
+        user_repo = params.get("user_git_repo")
+        kmod_repo = params.get("kmod_repo")
+        test_repo = params.get("test_git_repo")
+
+        kernel_branch = params.get("kernel_branch", "master")
+        user_branch = params.get("user_branch", "master")
+        kmod_branch = params.get("kmod_branch", "master")
+        test_branch = params.get("test_branch", "master")
+
+        kernel_lbranch = params.get("kernel_lbranch", "master")
+        user_lbranch = params.get("user_lbranch", "master")
+        kmod_lbranch = params.get("kmod_lbranch", "master")
+        test_lbranch = params.get("test_lbranch", "master")
+
+        kernel_commit = params.get("kernel_commit", None)
+        user_commit = params.get("user_commit", None)
+        kmod_commit = params.get("kmod_commit", None)
+        test_commit = params.get("test_commit", None)
+
+        kernel_patches = eval(params.get("kernel_patches", "[]"))
+        user_patches = eval(params.get("user_patches", "[]"))
+        kmod_patches = eval(params.get("user_patches", "[]"))
+
+        if not user_repo:
+            message = "KVM user git repository path not specified"
+            logging.error(message)
+            raise error.TestError(message)
+
+        userspace_srcdir = os.path.join(self.srcdir, "kvm_userspace")
+        kvm_utils.get_git_branch(user_repo, user_branch, userspace_srcdir,
+                                 user_commit, user_lbranch)
+        self.userspace_srcdir = userspace_srcdir
+
+        if user_patches:
+            os.chdir(self.userspace_srcdir)
+            for patch in user_patches:
+                utils.get_file(patch, os.path.join(self.userspace_srcdir,
+                                                   os.path.basename(patch)))
+                utils.system('patch -p1 %s' % os.path.basename(patch))
+
+        if test_repo:
+            test_srcdir = os.path.join(self.srcdir, "kvm-unit-tests")
+            kvm_utils.get_git_branch(test_repo, test_branch, test_srcdir,
+                                     test_commit, test_lbranch)
+            unittest_cfg = os.path.join(test_srcdir, 'x86',
+                                        'unittests.cfg')
+            self.test_srcdir = test_srcdir
+        else:
+            unittest_cfg = os.path.join(userspace_srcdir, 'kvm', 'test', 'x86',
+                                        'unittests.cfg')
+
+        self.unittest_cfg = None
+        if os.path.isfile(unittest_cfg):
+            self.unittest_cfg = unittest_cfg
+
+        if kernel_repo:
+            kernel_srcdir = os.path.join(self.srcdir, "kvm")
+            kvm_utils.get_git_branch(kernel_repo, kernel_branch, kernel_srcdir,
+                                     kernel_commit, kernel_lbranch)
+            self.kernel_srcdir = kernel_srcdir
+            if kernel_patches:
+                os.chdir(self.kernel_srcdir)
+                for patch in kernel_patches:
+                    utils.get_file(patch, os.path.join(self.userspace_srcdir,
+                                                       os.path.basename(patch)))
+                    utils.system('patch -p1 %s' % os.path.basename(patch))
+        else:
+            self.kernel_srcdir = None
+
+        if kmod_repo:
+            kmod_srcdir = os.path.join (self.srcdir, "kvm_kmod")
+            kvm_utils.get_git_branch(kmod_repo, kmod_branch, kmod_srcdir,
+                                     kmod_commit, kmod_lbranch)
+            self.kmod_srcdir = kmod_srcdir
+            if kmod_patches:
+                os.chdir(self.kmod_srcdir)
+                for patch in kmod_patches:
+                    utils.get_file(patch, os.path.join(self.userspace_srcdir,
+                                                       os.path.basename(patch)))
+                    utils.system('patch -p1 %s' % os.path.basename(patch))
+        else:
+            self.kmod_srcdir = None
+
+        configure_script = os.path.join(self.userspace_srcdir, 'configure')
+        self.configure_options = check_configure_options(configure_script)
+
+
+    def _build(self):
+        make_jobs = utils.count_cpus()
+        cfg = './configure'
+        if self.kmod_srcdir:
+            logging.info('Building KVM modules')
+            os.chdir(self.kmod_srcdir)
+            module_build_steps = [cfg,
+                                  'make clean',
+                                  'make sync LINUX=%s' % self.kernel_srcdir,
+                                  'make']
+        elif self.kernel_srcdir:
+            logging.info('Building KVM modules')
+            os.chdir(self.userspace_srcdir)
+            cfg += ' --kerneldir=%s' % self.host_kernel_srcdir
+            module_build_steps = [cfg,
+                            'make clean',
+                            'make -C kernel LINUX=%s sync' % self.kernel_srcdir]
+        else:
+            module_build_steps = []
+
+        for step in module_build_steps:
+            utils.run(step)
+
+        logging.info('Building KVM userspace code')
+        os.chdir(self.userspace_srcdir)
+        cfg += ' --prefix=%s' % self.prefix
+        if "--disable-strip" in self.configure_options:
+            cfg += ' --disable-strip'
+        if self.extra_configure_options:
+            cfg += ' %s' % self.extra_configure_options
+        utils.system(cfg)
+        utils.system('make clean')
+        utils.system('make -j %s' % make_jobs)
+
+        self.unittest_prefix = None
+        if self.unittest_cfg:
+            os.chdir(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(self.unittest_cfg)))
+            utils.system('./configure --prefix=%s' % self.prefix)
+            utils.system('make')
+            utils.system('make install')
+            self.unittest_prefix = os.path.join(self.prefix, 'share', 'qemu',
+                                                'tests')
+
+
+    def _install(self):
+        if self.kernel_srcdir:
+            os.chdir(self.userspace_srcdir)
+            # the kernel module install with --prefix doesn't work, and DESTDIR
+            # wouldn't work for the userspace stuff, so we clear WANT_MODULE:
+            utils.system('make install WANT_MODULE=')
+            # and install the old-style-kmod modules manually:
+            self._install_kmods_old_userspace(self.userspace_srcdir)
+        elif self.kmod_srcdir:
+            # if we have a kmod repository, it is easier:
+            # 1) install userspace:
+            os.chdir(self.userspace_srcdir)
+            utils.system('make install')
+            # 2) install kmod:
+            self._install_kmods(self.kmod_srcdir)
+        else:
+            # if we don't have kmod sources, we just install
+            # userspace:
+            os.chdir(self.userspace_srcdir)
+            utils.system('make install')
+
+        if self.path_to_roms:
+            install_roms(self.path_to_roms, self.prefix)
+        create_symlinks(test_bindir=self.test_bindir, prefix=self.prefix,
+                        bin_list=None,
+                        unittest=self.unittest_prefix)
+
+
+    def install(self):
+        self._pull_code()
+        self._build()
+        self._install()
+        self.reload_modules_if_needed()
+        if self.save_results:
+            save_build(self.srcdir, self.results_dir)
+
+
+class PreInstalledKvm(BaseInstaller):
+    # load_modules() will use the stock modules:
+    load_stock_modules = True
+    def install(self):
+        logging.info("Expecting KVM to be already installed. Doing nothing")
+
+
+class FailedInstaller:
+    """
+    Class used to be returned instead of the installer if a installation fails
+
+    Useful to make sure no installer object is used if KVM installation fails.
+    """
+    def __init__(self, msg="KVM install failed"):
+        self._msg = msg
+
+
+    def load_modules(self):
+        """Will refuse to load the KVM modules as install failed"""
+        raise FailedKvmInstall("KVM modules not available. reason: %s" % (self._msg))
+
+
+installer_classes = {
+    'localsrc': SourceDirInstaller,
+    'localtar': SourceDirInstaller,
+    'release': SourceDirInstaller,
+    'snapshot': SourceDirInstaller,
+    'git': GitInstaller,
+    'yum': YumInstaller,
+    'koji': KojiInstaller,
+    'preinstalled': PreInstalledKvm, 
+}
+
+
+def _installer_class(install_mode):
+    c = installer_classes.get(install_mode)
+    if c is None:
+        raise error.TestError('Invalid or unsupported'
+                              ' install mode: %s' % install_mode)
+    return c
+
+
+def make_installer(params):
+    # priority:
+    # - 'install_mode' param
+    # - 'mode' param
+    mode = params.get("install_mode", params.get("mode"))
+    klass = _installer_class(mode)
+    return klass(mode)
