Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Future goals for autotest and virtualization tests

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 03/09/2012 09:00 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 09/03/2012 15:43, Anthony Liguori ha scritto:
>> Linux is the only part that matters here.  The userspace in qemu-jeos
>> is just there to give a small environment for Linux to function
>> properly in.
>
> But again that's not okay for all testcases.  If I want to do SCSI
> tests, I cannot write them in shell scripts because qemu-jeos does not
> have sg3_utils.

What SCSI tests are you trying to write?

Are these the sort of tests that would be interesting to also run on Fedora, 
Windows, and Ubuntu?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Even libos would not help; relying on sg3_utils means that the client is
> a completely clear reimplementation.  I don't care about the extra trips
> to the SCSI specs that sg3_utils would save.  The problem is that since
> qtest cannot run on real hardware, I don't have confirmation that I
> didn't misinterpret the standards.  Writing all bits of the testsuite
> makes it likely to have the same misinterpretations in both the tested
> code and the tests, even if I try to write the tests from scratch with
> only the spec in front of me.
>
>> I'm skeptical of the value of this from a QEMU point of view.  Do we
>> really care if the buildroot version of udev propagates hotplug
>> events correct in buildroot for ARM in a beagleboard machine?
>
> I don't care about udev.  But even just binutils+GCC+kernel+uclibc is
> not as easy if you care about dozens of architectures.
>
> Paolo