Re: running a single functional test: where do the logs go?

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

On Mon, Mar 09, 2026 at 11:55:58AM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> The functional test documentation suggests running a single test
> with the build/run script. But if you do this where do the logfiles go?
> As you can see from this transcript, they don't seem to get written
> into the place that a "make check-functional" run puts them:
> 
> $ ls -l build/san/tests/functional/arm/test_emcraft_sf2.EmcraftSf2Machine.test_arm_emcraft_sf2/
> total 16
> -rw-r--r-- 1 pm215 pm215 3084 Mar  9 10:51 base.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 pm215 pm215  825 Mar  9 10:51 console.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 pm215 pm215  235 Mar  9 10:54 default.log
> drwxr-xr-x 3 pm215 pm215 4096 Mar  9 10:51 scratch
> $ date
> Mon Mar  9 11:20:13 GMT 2026
> $ time QEMU_TEST_QEMU_BINARY=./build/san/qemu-system-arm

BTW this is previously needed, but is now overkill wit the 'run' script.
QEMU_TEST_QEMU_BINARY=qemu-system-arm is sufficient, as meson's devenv
sets $PATH to include the locally built binary dirs first.

> ./build/san/run tests/functional/arm/test_emcraft_sf2.py
> TAP version 13
> ok 1 test_emcraft_sf2.EmcraftSf2Machine.test_arm_emcraft_sf2
> 1..1
> 
> real    3m24.394s
> user    3m21.314s
> sys     0m3.100s
> $ ls -l build/san/tests/functional/arm/test_emcraft_sf2.EmcraftSf2Machine.test_arm_emcraft_sf2/
> total 16
> -rw-r--r-- 1 pm215 pm215 3084 Mar  9 10:51 base.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 pm215 pm215  825 Mar  9 10:51 console.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 pm215 pm215  235 Mar  9 10:54 default.log
> drwxr-xr-x 3 pm215 pm215 4096 Mar  9 10:51 scratch
> 
> thanks
> -- PMM
> 

With regards,
Daniel
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