Re: [Qemu-devel] The state of testing

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

Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> writes:

> People are working on testing for various parts of QEMU.  I started
> this thread to gather an update on the state of testing and see where
> we still need help.
>
> I'm not sure yet if we should propose Google Summer of Code projects
> to help with the testing infrastructure.  Perhaps working on libqtest
> support for PCI, USB, virtio, etc would be a cool project.
>
> Buildbot
> ------------
> The buildbot performs nightly builds and "make check".  Test coverage
> is still minimal but it's a starting point where we can add more tests
> that will run every day.
>
> Block
> --------
> tests/qemu-iotests/ contains 49 tests for the block layer.  These
> tests mostly cover image format features like backing files,
> snapshots, resize, and basic I/O verify tests.
>
> The test suite has a few areas for improvement:
>
> 1. aio is not well-supported.  We need to be able to control the order
> in which asynchronous requests complete in order to test all possible
> code paths.  This issue also means the current aio tests are not
> deterministic and can fail randomly due to reordered output.
>
> 2. make check-block is not run by the buildbot.  We should do so to
> get nightly coverage of basic qcow2 tests.  I will send a buildbot
> config patch to fix this.
>
> Net
> ---
> No tests!

qemu-test has a ping test that runs against rtl8139, e1000, virtio,
ne2k_pci, i82551, i82557b, and i82559er.

It also tests hotplug add/remove of network adapters with a variety of
command line combinations.

There's quite a few more things in qemu-test too.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> How are things looking with device emulation, migration, monitor, char, etc?
>
> Stefan