Re: [PATCH] KVM-Test: Add KVM unit test (kvmctl)

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote:
> 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.

Ah, see. Thanks for the clarification.

Jan

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