Re: [RFC PATCH 0/8] Convert avocado tests to normal Python unittests

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 08:03:54PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il mar 16 lug 2024, 18:45 John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> ha scritto:
> 
> > My only ask is that we keep the tests running in the custom venv
> > environment we set up at build time
> >
> 
> Yes, they do, however pytest should also be added to pythondeps.toml if we
> go this way.

Done in this patch:

  https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2024-07/msg03596.html

> 
> > If we move to pytest, it's possible we can eliminate that funkiness, which
> > would be a win.
> >
> 
> There is the pycotap dependency to produce TAP from pytest, but that's
> probably something small enough to be vendored. And also it depends on what
> the dependencies would be for the assets framework.



> 
> > I'm also not so sure about recreating all of the framework that pulls vm
> > images on demand, that sounds like it'd be a lot of work, but maybe I'm
> > wrong about that.
> >
> 
> Yep, that's the part that I am a bit more doubtful about.

Pulling & caching VM images isn't much more than a URL download to 
a local file, not very complex in python. Assuming that's what you
are refering to, then it is already done in this patch:

  https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2024-07/msg03598.html

With regards,
Daniel
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