Re: [PATCH 0/4] tests/functional: Adapt reverse_debugging to run w/o Avocado

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

On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 12:29:41PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 19/08/2025 16.39, Gustavo Romero wrote:
> > The goal of this series is to remove Avocado as a dependency for running
> > the reverse_debugging functional test.
> > 
> > This test, the last one I’m aware of that relies on Avocado, requires it
> > because of the need for GDB to test reverse stepping and continue.
> 
>  Hi!
> 
> Please note that there are currently also some efforts going on to extract
> the GDB part from avocado into a more self-contained python module called
> aautils, which might help here, too:
> 
>  https://github.com/avocado-framework/aautils/issues/82

If we did go the route of wanting the pygdb code, I'd prefer we just
included it in tests/functional/qemu_test, rather than adding a dep
on aautils which doesn't seem broadly relevant. Or pygdb should just
be spun out as a standalone python project, as it doesn't need much
of a dep on anything else.


With regards,
Daniel
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