Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-iotests: look for qemu-iotests-$ARCH

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>]

On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 10:34:35AM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig schrieb:
> > Look for the binary as installed by qemu make install instead of
> > requiring the qemu symlink.  Note that we need a couple of regular
> > expressions to munge the uname output into the architecture name
> > qemu expects.
> 
> I don't completely understand your goal here. Why would you want to use
> the host architecture for the guest, too? If anything this makes tests
> behave differently on different hosts. If, say, qemu-system-x86_64 is
> available depends on the configure options rather than on the host. And
> qemu isn't a symlink AFAIK, but the traditional name of qemu-system-i386
> (or has this changed recently?).

I did this from the kvm point of view where normally host equals guest
(modulo differences like i386 vs x86_64).  In my installation qemu was a
symlink, not sure if this was the original or if I did it manually at
some point.

So what method of finding a suitable qemu binary do you suggest instead?
I'm pretty open for doing anything that works.