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Tsirkin" To: Daniel =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=2E_Berrang=E9?= Cc: Thomas Huth , Ani Sinha , John Snow , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Laurent Vivier , Paolo Bonzini , imammedo@redhat.com Subject: Re: venv for python qtest bits? (was: Re: [PATCH 11/12] acpi/tests/bits: add README file for bits qtests) Message-ID: <20220628061749-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <20220628024810-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <4e1c2a45-eb53-e210-1ce1-05837bf1e7c3@redhat.com> <20220628030749-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <7bf5976e-8277-7c78-f412-44f7be8754f4@redhat.com> <59150265-44ed-0b14-df1c-42e3f2e97b7e@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=170.10.129.124; envelope-from=mst@redhat.com; helo=us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com X-Spam_score_int: -28 X-Spam_score: -2.9 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIMWL_WL_HIGH=-0.082, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 11:14:53AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > Now that you mention it, avocado does feel like a more appropriate fit. > IIUC the biosbits project appears to be effectively providing a custom > guest OS ISO image. IOW this testing is quite biased towards being > integration testing which is the target of avocado, while qtest is much > more to the unit testing end of the spectrum. This would avoid all the > discussion and patches around introducing python to qtest > > With regards, > Daniel Yes it's an ISO image but not a full OS. So IMHO not really a integration test, more like a unit test for ACPI - current tests we have just compare ACPI to expected file which is okay but very limited. -- MST