Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] tests/functional: Adapt reverse_debugging to run w/o Avocado

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

On Thu, Sep 04, 2025 at 03:46:35PM +0000, 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, continue, etc.
> 
> In this series, we leveraged the run-test.py script used in the
> check-tcg tests, making it a GDB runner capable of calling a test script
> without spawning any VMs. In this configuration, the test scripts can
> manage the VM and also import gdb, making the GDB Python API inside the
> functional test scripts.

I've posted an alternate series that removes the avocado
dependency by importing the gdb py code it relied upon.
This avoids the changes to the way the tests must be run
which I don't think are a desirable approach for the
functional tests

  https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2025-09/msg02499.html

With regards,
Daniel
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