Re: [PATCH v5 0/9] tests/functional: Adapt reverse_debugging to run w/o Avocado

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 02/10/2025 18.53, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 02/10/2025 04.04, Gustavo Romero wrote:
>> The goal of this series is to remove Avocado as a dependency for running
>> the reverse_debugging functional test.
>>
>> After several rounds of discussions about v1 and v2, and experiments
>> done by Daniel and Thomas (thanks for all the experiments and comments
>> so far), I've taken a new approach and moved away from using a runner
>> for GDB. The changes, I believe, are much simpler now.
> 
>   Hi Gustavo,
> 
> unfortunately, this still seems to be broken on Fedora. After applying your 
> series, I get:
> 
> stderr:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "/home/thuth/devel/qemu/tests/functional/reverse_debugging.py", line 
> 100, in reverse_debugging
>      self.reverse_debugging_run(vm, port, gdb_arch, last_icount)
>      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>    File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/unittest/case.py", line 156, in skip_wrapper
>      raise SkipTest(reason)
> unittest.case.SkipTest: Missing env var(s): QEMU_TEST_GDB

Looks like it's required to explicitly use the --gdb=... parameter of 
configure to make it work, and it does not work without that paramter? Could 
you please have a look whether it works without --gdb with the auto-detected 
gdb for you?

  Thomas