From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KMRaG-0005SU-BZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:00:04 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KMRaE-0005RM-1s for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:00:03 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51195 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KMRaD-0005RG-V5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:00:01 -0400 Received: from e6.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.146]:56880) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KMRaD-0003q1-BP for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:00:01 -0400 Received: from d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (d01relay02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.234]) by e6.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6PHtRxo028059 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:55:27 -0400 Received: from d01av03.pok.ibm.com (d01av03.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.217]) by d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.0) with ESMTP id m6PHqssk220890 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:52:54 -0400 Received: from d01av03.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av03.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m6PHqr4W004202 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:52:53 -0400 Message-ID: <488A12D4.8010905@us.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:52:20 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/1] integrate qemu-test into kvm-userspace References: <1217004805-13955-1-git-send-email-ryanh@us.ibm.com> <200807251812.34838.paul@codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: <200807251812.34838.paul@codesourcery.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paul Brook Cc: Ryan Harper , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org Paul Brook wrote: >> Ultimately, I'd like to push this into qemu since nothing we're doing >> here is arch or kvm specific. >> > > What advantage does inclusion with qemu give? > AFAICS You're going to have to download gigabytes of images anyway, so > wouldn't it make more sense to include the test script with those? > The tests themselves are meant to run against pretty much any Linux image that's configured to use the serial port as a console. The idea is to be able to run the individual tests with arbitrary QEMU command lines (think -smp 2 for instance) against arbitrary Linux images. Yeah, it can't guarantee to be perfect but in practice, it seems to work pretty well. Ryan's also included a "make check" framework that assumes a set of existing images. That may not be useful within QEMU but I think the tests themselves are. Regards, Anthony Liguori > Paul >