Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv5] block: add native support for NFS

[Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de>]

On 03.01.2014 11:37, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> Looks good.  In order to merge this new block driver qemu-iotests
> support for nfs is required.  That way the block driver can be exercised
> and checked for regressions (I guess you performed manual testing
> during development).
>
> Please see tests/qemu-iotests/common for examples of
> NBD/SSH/Sheepdog/etc support.
>
> The qemu-iotests test suite with raw, qcow2, and vmdk formats should
> work on top of NFS.  Assuming you have an NFS server already running
> on localhost, something like the following should succeed:
>
>    cd tests/qemu-iotests
>    ln -s ../../x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 qemu
>    ln -s ../../qemu-img .
>    ln -s ../../qemu-io .
>    ./check -nfs # raw format by default
>    ./check -nfs -qcow2
>    ./check -nfs -vmdk
>
> Maybe -nfs should take the base NFS URI as an argument to allow more
> flexible test configurations.  It's up to you.
>
> More info on qemu-iotests: http://qemu-project.org/Documentation/QemuIoTests
That would have been good to know earlier ;-)

Will look into this.

Peter