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From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH OSSTEST] make_qcow2: Look for qemu-img under
 /usr as well as /usr/local
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 16:58:26 +0100
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On Tue, 2015-09-22 at 16:41 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Ian Campbell writes ("[PATCH OSSTEST] make_qcow2: Look for qemu-img under
> /usr as well as /usr/local"):
> > Older Xen's installed in /usr by default, so we need to check where
> > qemu-img if we want these tests to work on those versions.
> 
> Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
> 
> But, why are we executing a utility from /usr/lib/xen/bin ?  If this
> utility is useful to osstest it is presumably useful to users too, and
> in that case it should be on PATH (under some suitable name).

We install qemu-upstream under our own prefix, I think to avoid conficting
with the users own qemu installations?

qemu-img comes from there. We do install qemu-xen-img (from trad) into
$PATH, but when I wrote this test I thought it preferable to use qemu-img.

Ian.