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Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:40:14 -0600
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] qemu-test: a set of tests scripts for
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: "lmr@redhat.com" <lmr@redhat.com>, dlaor@redhat.com, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On 12/27/2011 09:58 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 12/27/2011 05:22 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>> The infrastructure assumes that you have a full OS available in the
>> guest.  The tests are written in Python and make a variety of
>> assumptions.  To my knowledge, it's not very practical to build a
>> busybox environment with Python embedded in it.
>
> You could move whatever infrastructure qemu-test uses to kvm-autotest,
> at which point kvm-autotest will know everything qemu-test knows.  But
> there's zero reason to do that, autotest is designed to drive external
> tests and in fact most of the tests it supports are not in the autotest
> repository.

Yes.  I think having a qemu-test driver for kvm-autotest that knows enough to 
invoke the qemu-tests and integrate the results in autotest results reporting is 
the right thing to do.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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