From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Kiszka Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM-Test: Add KVM unit test (kvmctl) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:22:08 +0200 Message-ID: <4BCC2ED0.6040108@siemens.com> References: <1271656059-13646-1-git-send-email-lmr@redhat.com> <4BCC1964.70006@siemens.com> <1271672456.2505.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "autotest@test.kernel.org" , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" , sshang To: Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues Return-path: Received: from goliath.siemens.de ([192.35.17.28]:20414 "EHLO goliath.siemens.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752818Ab0DSKW3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Apr 2010 06:22:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1271672456.2505.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote: > On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 10:50 +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote: >>> From: sshang >>> >>> 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 -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux