Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] block: Add support for Secure Shell (ssh) block device.

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 11:14:30PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:47:32AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 03:57:29PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > Please run qemu-iotests, see tests/qemu-iotests/check.  For example,
> > with NBD:
> > 
> >   $ cd tests/qemu-iotests
> >   $ QEMU_PROG=$HOME/qemu/x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 PATH=$HOME/qemu:$PATH \
> >     ./check -nbd
> > 
> > A patch will be required to add -ssh support to ./check.
> 
> I have added this in the updated patch.
> 
> A question: Are the -qcow2 tests meant to pass?  Many don't pass for
> my ssh driver (ie. './check -ssh -qcow2').  I tried using the nbd
> driver (ie. './check -nbd -qcow2') and a large number of those fail as
> well.  To take an example, test 013 fails because it tries to run the
> 'mv' command on the nbd: URL (or the ssh: URL when running the test on
> my block driver).  It looks like this and other qcow2 tests are a bit
> broken on anything other than plain files.

Yes, I don't expect qemu-iotests to work with qcow2-on-nbd.

Just ./check -nbd and ./check -ssh should work.

Stefan