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On Mon, 2018-04-09 at 10:43 -0700, Yeoh Ee Peng wrote:
> QA team were testing qemu boot image and shutdown on each
> qemu architecture manually. Add automated test to test qemu boot on
> ext4 and nfs, finally check that it can shutdown properly.
> 
> Original runqemu tests was dedicated for MACHINE=qemux86-64 and
> it was testing various live image (iso and hddimg) will be able
> to boot while live image was not supported on all qemu architecture.
> 
> The new tests were designed as a separate class as this tests
> focus on testing qemu boot and shutdown on each qemu architecture.
> Furthermore, this tests focus on testing qemu could shutdown
> as expected.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yeoh Ee Peng <ee.peng.yeoh@intel.com>

I do have one other question about this. There are various other tests
which boot qemu images. Would we be able to assume that because those
tests work, the start/stop of qemu is working? Or is there a unique
element we need to test specifically here?

Cheers,

Richard