Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/1] integrate qemu-test into kvm-userspace

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Paul Brook wrote:
>> Ultimately, I'd like to push this into qemu since nothing we're doing
>> here is arch or kvm specific.
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> What advantage does inclusion with qemu give? 
> AFAICS You're going to have to download gigabytes of images anyway, so 
> wouldn't it make more sense to include the test script with those?
>   

The tests themselves are meant to run against pretty much any Linux 
image that's configured to use the serial port as a console.  The idea 
is to be able to run the individual tests with arbitrary QEMU command 
lines (think -smp 2 for instance) against arbitrary Linux images.  Yeah, 
it can't guarantee to be perfect but in practice, it seems to work 
pretty well.

Ryan's also included a "make check" framework that assumes a set of 
existing images.  That may not be useful within QEMU but I think the 
tests themselves are.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori



> Paul
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