Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 RFC 0/9] Update tests/qemu-iotests cases for multi-platform support

[Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>]

On 2014-11-27 at 10:30, Max Reitz wrote:
> On 2014-11-13 at 11:36, Mao Chuan Li wrote:
>> Currently the qemu-iotest framework is focused on the x86 platform. 
>> The suite should be usable by other platforms as well.
>> To enable multi-platform usage, this patch set enhances the framework 
>> scripts to address this. By using the default machine
>> type of the platform one can add specific output files if it deviates 
>> from the default. Secondly, single test cases can
>> be adjusted as well when e.g. devices have different names or are not 
>> supported at all.
>>
>> Mao Chuan Li (9):
>>    qemu-iotests: run qemu with -nodefaults
>>    qemu-iotests: qemu machine type support
>>    qemu-iotests: add core_pattern access functions
>>    qemu-iotests: fix test 039
>
>>    qemu-iotests: s390x: fix test 071
>>    qemu-iotests: s390x: fix test 087
>
> To me, the main difference between the current test output and the new 
> s390-specific seems to be lines about CD and floppy disk; due to patch 
> 1, they are gone from x86 as well, though. Therefore, we don't need 
> special s390 output, but need to apply the changes directly to 071.out 
> and 087.out.
>
> Furthermore, after patch 1, tests 067 and 091 fail for me on x86, too. 
> I don't know why 091 fails, but 067 fails because CD and floppy are 
> missing from the block-query result and the DEVICE_TRAY_MOVED events 
> are missing from QMP output in general (which is completely fine, we 
> just need to adjust the reference output accordingly).

Ah, I know why 091 failed. I forgot -c writethrough and ran it in /tmp. 
My bad. So it's only 067 that needs fixing.

Max