From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55275) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sz0ri-0007pI-6l for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 03:39:39 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sz0rh-0006pO-1j for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 03:39:38 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:10666) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sz0rg-0006pK-Pj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 03:39:36 -0400 From: Markus Armbruster References: <87obmmcxlh.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 09:39:33 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Blue Swirl's message of "Tue, 7 Aug 2012 21:06:12 +0000") Message-ID: <877gt97ryi.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] For all targets and machine types: "start to monitor" smoke test List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Blue Swirl Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Anthony Liguori Blue Swirl writes: > On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> Very basic smoke test: start QEMU with -monitor stdio, quit immediately. >> Wouldn't it be nice if that worked for all targets and machine types? >> >> Many targets have mandatory options (fun oxymoron), such as -kernel or >> -pflash. Can't stop me, I just try a bunch until something works. >> > > Funny, I tried pretty similar stuff earlier but with qtest: > http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-04/msg01880.html I'd like to see such a test in "make check", too. I missed your try, or I forgot it since, thanks for the pointer. I'd prefer providing mocked up images for the test over disabling ROM and kernel loading in many places (your patch), let alone butchering it (my hackery; clearly not committable).