Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] qemu-iotest only for Linux?

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 07:59:20AM +0000, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:04:24PM +0100, Stefan Weil wrote:
> > What's the reason for "_supported_os Linux" in each test?
> > Because of this statement, the tests only run on Linux today,
> > although they could also run on BSD, w32 and other operating
> > systems (maybe small fixes are needed).
> > 
> > I don't think that adding every possible OS to each test
> > would be a good solution. Can we remove this OS dependency
> > completely?
> 
> In many cases the _supported_os was probably copy-pasted when creating
> new tests.  However, we can be pretty sure that the tests haven't all
> been run on anything other than Linux and maybe Windows recently.

Yes.

> I think we can support other host OSes but we should combine this with
> adding "make check" and maybe "make check-block" to the buildbot - that
> way we'll be notified if the tests break.  There are Linux, Solaris, and
> OpenBSD buildslaves.

For now please add the Oses it actually works as documentation, once
we have a good overview we can add classes like "generic" or "posix"