Re: [PATCH v1 2/5] tests/qtest/migration: Add infrastructure to skip tests on older QEMUs

[Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>]

Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de> writes:

> We can run the migration tests with two different QEMU binaries to
> test migration compatibility between QEMU versions. This means we'll
> be running the tests with an older QEMU in either source or
> destination.
>
> We need to avoid trying to test functionality that is unknown to the
> older QEMU. This could mean new features, bug fixes, error message
> changes, QEMU command line changes, migration API changes, etc.
>
> Add a 'since' argument to the tests that inform when the functionality
> that is being test has been added to QEMU so we can skip the test on
> older versions.
>
> Also add a version comparison function so we can adapt test code
> depending on the QEMU binary version being used.
>
> Signed-off-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
> ---
>  tests/qtest/migration-helpers.c | 11 +++++++++++
>  tests/qtest/migration-helpers.h |  1 +
>  tests/qtest/migration-test.c    | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 40 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/tests/qtest/migration-helpers.c b/tests/qtest/migration-helpers.c
> index 24fb7b3525..d21f5cd8c0 100644
> --- a/tests/qtest/migration-helpers.c
> +++ b/tests/qtest/migration-helpers.c
> @@ -292,3 +292,14 @@ char *resolve_machine_version(const char *alias, const char *var1,
>  
>      return find_common_machine_version(machine_name, var1, var2);
>  }
> +
> +int migration_vercmp(QTestState *who, const char *tgt_version)
> +{
> +    int major, minor, micro;
> +    g_autofree char *version = NULL;
> +
> +    qtest_query_version(who, &major, &minor, &micro);
> +    version = g_strdup_printf("%d.%d.%d", major, minor, micro);

I just noticed this is not right. I need to increment the minor when
there's a micro to account for the versions in between releases. The
whole point of this series is to test a X.Y.0 release vs. a X.Y.Z
development branch.

> +
> +    return strcmp(version, tgt_version);
> +}