Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] block: qemu-iotests for vhdx, read sample dynamic imagee

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

jcody@redhat.com writes:

> This adds the VHDX format to the qemu-iotests format, and adds
> a read test.  The test reads from an existing sample image, that
> was created with Hyper-V under Windwos Server 2012.
>
> The image file is a 1GB dynamic image, with 32MB blocks.
>
> The pattern 0xa5 exists from 0MB-33MB (past a block size boundary)
>
> The pattern 0x96 exists from 33MB-66MB (past another block boundary,
> and leaving a partial blank block)
>
> From 66MB-1024MB, all reads should return 0.
>
> Although 1GB dynamic image with 66MB of data, the bzip2'ed image
> file size is only 874 bytes.

I take it there is additional meta-data in there generated by Windows
Server itself? Otherwise I would be tempted to write a tool to generate
the image on demand so it could be used to trigger other edge cases when
found.

Having said that 874 bytes certainly isn't to heavy a burden for the
repository ;-)

I'm currently pondering what the best way of supporting system images
(i.e. kernel+rootfs) would be to make system regression testing easier.
Unfortunately those images would be far too large to carry in the repo
although there may be some sub-module annex type thing I could try.

-- 
Alex Bennée