Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] tests/functional: Adapt reverse_debugging to run w/o Avocado (yet another try)

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> writes:

> Here's yet another attempt to remove the avocado dependency from the
> reverse debugging tests: I basically took Gustavo's patches to rework
> tests/functional/reverse_debugging.py, but instead of calling that
> through tests/guest-debug/run-test.py and adding the cumbersome code
> to support additional test execution logic, I kept our normal way of
> running tests via pycotap.

Hmm I was getting:

  2025-09-15 17:10:50,798 - INFO: GDB CMD: /home/alex/src/tools/binutils-gdb.git/builds/all/install/bin/gdb -q -n -batch -ex 'set pagination off' -ex 'set confirm off' -ex "py sys.argv=['/home/alex/lsrc/qemu.git/tests/functional/reverse_debugging.py']" -x /home/alex/lsrc/qemu.git/tests/functional/reverse_debugging.py
  2025-09-15 17:10:50,803 - DEBUG: Using cached asset /home/alex/.cache/qemu/download/7e1430b81c26bdd0da025eeb8fbd77b5dc961da4364af26e771bd39f379cbbf7 for https://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/29/Everything/aarch64/os/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
  2025-09-15 17:10:50,891 - INFO: gdb output:
   Python Exception <class 'ModuleNotFoundError'>: No module named 'pycotap'
  Error occurred in Python: No module named 'pycotap'

which asserted. Should gdb be seeing the pyenv PYTHONPATH or should we
add a check for python3-pycotap in configure?

-- 
Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro