From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:60333) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RkbUl-0004cD-FY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:12:13 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RkbUg-00006b-N6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:12:07 -0500 Received: from e4.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.144]:41985) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RkbUg-00006W-KY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:12:02 -0500 Received: from /spool/local by e4.ny.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:12:02 -0500 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (d01av02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.216]) by d01relay06.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id q0ADBk613395726 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:11:46 -0500 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av02.pok.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id q0ADBYTw005046 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:11:45 -0200 Message-ID: <4F0C3902.6070605@us.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 07:11:30 -0600 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1326124572-8312-1-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> <4F0B1016.2010600@us.ibm.com> <201201091747.52115.paul@codesourcery.com> <4F0B3FE2.8080909@us.ibm.com> <4F0B54A7.9060504@web.de> <4F0B5F2D.1080904@us.ibm.com> <4F0B76A2.1090408@web.de> <4F0B7EA2.50909@us.ibm.com> <4F0C0B78.3090009@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4F0C0B78.3090009@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Please read: make check framework List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Kevin Wolf Cc: Mark McLoughlin , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Alexander Graf , Blue Swirl , Max Filippov , Gerd Hoffmann , "Edgar E. Iglesias" , Peter Maydell , Markus Armbruster , =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcmVhcyBGw6RyYmVy?= , =?UTF-8?B?SGVydsOpIFBvdXNzaW5lYXU=?= , Avi Kivity , Stefan Hajnoczi , Stefano Stabellini , Stefan Weil , Riku Voipio , Jan Kiszka , Paul Brook , Paolo Bonzini , Daniel Gollub , Luiz Capitulino , "Venkateswararao Jujjuri (JV)" , Richard Henderson , Marcelo Tosatti , Michael Walle , Amit Shah , "Vassili Karpov (malc)" , Aurelien Jarno On 01/10/2012 03:57 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote: > Am 10.01.2012 00:56, schrieb Anthony Liguori: >> On 01/09/2012 05:22 PM, Andreas Färber wrote: >>> Am 09.01.2012 22:42, schrieb Anthony Liguori: >>>> If there's some piece of QEMU you care about, start writing tests and >>>> tie it into make check. It's that simple :-) >>> >>> Not quite. It would be easier if we just set up some storage space with >>> images like the handful of *-test images on qemu.org. >> >> It's not that simple. We cannot just host an image on qemu.org without getting >> into GPL considerations. Even beyond the GPL, I don't think having opaque >> images that people don't understand how to recreate if they need to is a good >> strategy. >> >> I've considered trying to do something based on automated installation (using >> kickstart/preseed). This has limitations though. It takes an extremely long >> time to generate these having the necessary hooks with preseeds appears to be >> very difficult. > > Isn't this kind of tool called autotest? I can't see a reason to > duplicate it if you really want to go for full-blown guests. Yes, I should have added, "I couldn't think of a better way to do this than what autotest already does." Regards, Anthony Liguori > > Kevin >