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From: Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM-Test: Add KVM unit test (kvmctl)
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 07:20:56 -0300
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On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 10:50 +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote:
> > From: sshang <sshang@redhat.com>
> > 
> > The test use kvm test harness kvmctl load binary test case file
> > to test various functions of the kvm kernel module.
> 
> I thought that tool is deprecated (or even broken), and I was about to
> suggest dropping it from the tree in favor of a simple script like this:
> 
> $QEMU -chardev stdio,id=cons -device testdev,chardev=cons -vga none \
> 	-vnc none -kernel $TESTCASE

The purpose of the this specific test module is to do the unit testing
in older branches of the code (such as RHEL 5.x branch). For upstream we
have another module that will use the -kernel option being worked. I
plan on calling it unit_test_kernel.