[PATCH v2 0/9] tests/migration-test: Allow testing older machine types

[Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>]

This adds support for running migration-test with two different QEMU
versions to test migration compatibility. The tests automatically
choose the latest machine type supported by both QEMU versions.

changes:

- introduce *_with_env variants of the relevant functions [Daniel, Juan]

- keep the requirement for having the QTEST_QEMU_BINARY always
  present. qtest_get_arch() is used extensively in the qtest_add*
  functions. It would be too much churn to pass a different binary
  into it.

- with this^ we also need to keep the requirement for using only one
  of SRC|DST. Otherwise it would be confusing to have three binaries
  listed.

- query the alias to find out the machine types [Daniel]

I haven't looked into the docker part for now. I think Daniel's
suggestion of QTEST_QEMU_BINARY_SRC='podman run ... qemu-system-foo'
looks interesting. Do we have the latest release already built in the
registry at any given point?

Thanks

v1:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231003141932.2367-1-farosas@suse.de

Hi, I had this WIP patch laying around that seems to fit Juan's vision
about testing older machine types. It is a very rough draft for now,
but it may be useful for kickstarting the discussion.

With this we can give the tests two different QEMU versions. The test
picks the older machine type between the two and runs the whole
migration-test suite.

We'd just need a way to provide the older build. Currently I'm doing
this by hand.

sample output:
 # Using two different QEMU binaries. Common machine type: pc-i440fx-8.1
 ...
 # Using ./qemu-system-x86_64 (v8.1.0-952-g8a940312a2-dirty) as migration source
 ...
 # Using ../build-8.1.0/qemu-system-x86_64 (v8.1.0-dirty) as migration destination

Let me know what you think.

Fabiano Rosas (9):
  tests/qtest: Allow qtest_qemu_binary to use a custom environment
    variable
  tests/qtest: Introduce qtest_init_with_env
  tests/qtest: Allow qtest_get_machines to use an alternate QEMU binary
  tests/qtest: Introduce qtest_has_machine_with_env
  tests/qtest: Introduce qtest_resolve_machine_alias
  tests/qtest/migration: Introduce find_common_machine_version
  tests/qtest/migration: Define a machine for all architectures
  tests/qtest/migration: Support more than one QEMU binary
  tests/qtest: Don't print messages from query instances

 tests/qtest/libqtest.c          | 86 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 tests/qtest/libqtest.h          | 32 ++++++++++++
 tests/qtest/migration-helpers.c | 24 +++++++++
 tests/qtest/migration-helpers.h |  2 +
 tests/qtest/migration-test.c    | 36 ++++++++++++--
 5 files changed, 162 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

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