Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] qcow2: Fix warnings in check_refcount()

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

Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am Samstag, 18. April 2009 00:07 schrieben Sie:
>   
>> Every patch I commit gets tested.  I have various tests that I run
>> depending on which subsystem the patch touches.  Right now, for qcow2, I
>> don't have nearly enough.  I was hoping that Christoph had something
>> laying around that I could use since it looks like qemu-io would be a
>> great harness for qcow2 changes.
>>     
>
> It is, definitely. qemu-io is the other part which I needed. But qemu-io alone 
> won't make you happy. It can exercise a lot of code, but it can't tell you if 
> your image is broken in the end. Except for reading back written data, of 
> course, but breakage is often enough more subtle.
>
>   
>> But I can write a pretty easy script myself on top of qemu-io so it's no
>> big deal.  I'm not suggesting holding up development.
>>     
>
> Heh, so everyone is writing his own scripts. What would you think about 
> bringing the test cases you use into the repository?
>   

Yeah, I've been wanting to do everything via kvm-autotest but so far, 
it's not quite up to what I want to use it for.  I'll see about cleaning 
up some of my scripts and posting them.  The problem is they rely on 
custom images.

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Regards,

Anthony Liguori