Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Mar 8

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 03/09/2011 03:25 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 08.03.2011 16:50, schrieb Chris Wright:
>> QAPI merge plans
>> - should be 100% back compat
>> - qmp moved over
>> - hmp moved over
>> - 1st pass, core infrastructure (includes test framework)
>> - 2nd pass, command conversion
>> - 3rd pass, more controversial bits
>> - adds dependencies: glib and python
>> - some testing based on kvm-unit-test micro-os instance (e.g. added a balloon
>>    and run commands against it to test)
>>    - add more functionality here? (kvm autotest is slow, above is quick)
>>      - will hit some point where full functionality is needed
>>    - have a mini linux to do this (lags where driver updates are part of test)
> Depending on what we want to include in such tests, we might want to
> have tests with a badly behaving kernel, which Linux hopefully isn't.

Yeah, that's a big advantage of kvm-unit-test is that you can't really 
hack the upstream version of virtio-balloon to do evil things.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Kevin
>