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:

> On 15/09/2025 18.13, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> 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'
>
> Ah, sorry, I have it installed pycotap system-wide, too, so I did not
> notice it... I'll fix it in the next version if we decide to proceed
> with this approach instead of using one of the others.

FWIW I prefer this approach.

>
>  Thomas

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Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro