Re: [Qemu-devel] Please read: make check framework

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

On 01/10/2012 03:57 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 10.01.2012 00:56, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
>> On 01/09/2012 05:22 PM, Andreas Färber wrote:
>>> Am 09.01.2012 22:42, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
>>>> If there's some piece of QEMU you care about, start writing tests and
>>>> tie it into make check.  It's that simple :-)
>>>
>>> Not quite. It would be easier if we just set up some storage space with
>>> images like the handful of *-test images on qemu.org.
>>
>> It's not that simple.  We cannot just host an image on qemu.org without getting
>> into GPL considerations.  Even beyond the GPL, I don't think having opaque
>> images that people don't understand how to recreate if they need to is a good
>> strategy.
>>
>> I've considered trying to do something based on automated installation (using
>> kickstart/preseed).  This has limitations though.  It takes an extremely long
>> time to generate these having the necessary hooks with preseeds appears to be
>> very difficult.
>
> Isn't this kind of tool called autotest? I can't see a reason to
> duplicate it if you really want to go for full-blown guests.

Yes, I should have added, "I couldn't think of a better way to do this than what 
autotest already does."

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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> Kevin
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