[PATCH v5] tests/functional: add a vfio-user smoke test

[PATCH v5] tests/functional: add a vfio-user smoke test

[John Levon]

From: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.caveayland@nutanix.com>

Add a basic test of the vfio-user PCI client implementation.

Co-authored-by: John Levon <john.levon@nutanix.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.caveayland@nutanix.com>
Signed-off-by: John Levon <john.levon@nutanix.com>
---
 MAINTAINERS                                   |   1 +
 tests/functional/x86_64/meson.build           |   1 +
 .../x86_64/test_vfio_user_client.py           | 197 ++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 199 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 tests/functional/x86_64/test_vfio_user_client.py

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index fb045388b9..738db4f83b 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -4307,6 +4307,7 @@ F: docs/system/devices/vfio-user.rst
 F: hw/vfio-user/*
 F: include/hw/vfio-user/*
 F: subprojects/libvfio-user
+F: tests/functional/x86_64/test_vfio_user_client.py
 
 EBPF:
 M: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
diff --git a/tests/functional/x86_64/meson.build b/tests/functional/x86_64/meson.build
index d0b4667bb8..eed1936976 100644
--- a/tests/functional/x86_64/meson.build
+++ b/tests/functional/x86_64/meson.build
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ tests_x86_64_system_thorough = [
   'replay',
   'reverse_debug',
   'tuxrun',
+  'vfio_user_client',
   'virtio_balloon',
   'virtio_gpu',
 ]
diff --git a/tests/functional/x86_64/test_vfio_user_client.py b/tests/functional/x86_64/test_vfio_user_client.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..1e4c5bc875
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/functional/x86_64/test_vfio_user_client.py
@@ -0,0 +1,197 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2025 Nutanix, Inc.
+#
+# Author:
+#  Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.caveayland@nutanix.com>
+#  John Levon <john.levon@nutanix.com>
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+"""
+Check basic vfio-user-pci client functionality. The test starts two VMs:
+
+    - the server VM runs the libvfio-user "gpio" example server inside it,
+      piping vfio-user traffic between a local UNIX socket and a virtio-serial
+      port. On the host, the virtio-serial port is backed by a local socket.
+
+    - the client VM loads the gpio-pci-idio-16 kernel module, with the
+      vfio-user client connecting to the above local UNIX socket.
+
+This way, we don't depend on trying to run a vfio-user server on the host
+itself.
+
+Once both VMs are running, we run some basic configuration on the gpio device
+and verify that the server is logging the expected out. As this is consistent
+given the same VM images, we just do a simple direct comparison.
+"""
+
+import difflib
+import logging
+import os
+import select
+import shutil
+import socket
+import subprocess
+import time
+
+from qemu_test import Asset
+from qemu_test import QemuSystemTest
+from qemu_test import exec_command
+from qemu_test import exec_command_and_wait_for_pattern
+from qemu_test import wait_for_console_pattern
+
+# Exact output can vary, so we just sample for some expected lines.
+EXPECTED_SERVER_LINES = [
+    "gpio: adding DMA region [0, 0xc0000) offset=0 flags=0x3",
+    "gpio: devinfo flags 0x3, num_regions 9, num_irqs 5",
+    "gpio: region_info[0] offset 0 flags 0 size 0 argsz 32",
+    "gpio: region_info[1] offset 0 flags 0 size 0 argsz 32",
+    "gpio: region_info[2] offset 0 flags 0x3 size 256 argsz 32",
+    "gpio: region_info[3] offset 0 flags 0 size 0 argsz 32",
+    "gpio: region_info[4] offset 0 flags 0 size 0 argsz 32",
+    "gpio: region_info[5] offset 0 flags 0 size 0 argsz 32",
+    "gpio: region_info[7] offset 0 flags 0x3 size 256 argsz 32",
+    "gpio: region7: read 256 bytes at 0",
+    "gpio: region7: read 0 from (0x30:4)",
+    "gpio: cleared EROM",
+    "gpio: I/O space enabled",
+    "gpio: memory space enabled",
+    "gpio: SERR# enabled",
+    "gpio: region7: wrote 0x103 to (0x4:2)",
+    "gpio: I/O space enabled",
+    "gpio: memory space enabled",
+]
+
+class VfioUserClient(QemuSystemTest):
+
+    ASSET_REPO = 'https://github.com/mcayland-ntx/libvfio-user-test'
+
+    ASSET_KERNEL = Asset(
+        f'{ASSET_REPO}/raw/refs/heads/main/images/bzImage',
+        '40292fa6ce95d516e26bccf5974e138d0db65a6de0bc540cabae060fe9dea605'
+    )
+
+    ASSET_ROOTFS = Asset(
+        f'{ASSET_REPO}/raw/refs/heads/main/images/rootfs.ext2',
+        'e1e3abae8aebb8e6e77f08b1c531caeacf46250c94c815655c6bbea59fc3d1c1'
+    )
+
+
+    def prepare_images(self):
+        """Download the images for the VMs."""
+        self.kernel_path = self.ASSET_KERNEL.fetch()
+        self.rootfs_path = self.ASSET_ROOTFS.fetch()
+
+    def configure_server_vm_args(self, server_vm, sock_path):
+        """
+        Configuration for the server VM. Set up virtio-serial device backed by
+        the given socket path.
+        """
+        server_vm.add_args('-kernel', self.kernel_path)
+        server_vm.add_args('-append', 'console=ttyS0 root=/dev/sda')
+        server_vm.add_args('-drive',
+            f"file={self.rootfs_path},if=ide,format=raw,id=drv0")
+        server_vm.add_args('-snapshot')
+        server_vm.add_args('-chardev',
+            f"socket,id=sock0,path={sock_path},telnet=off,server=on,wait=off")
+        server_vm.add_args('-device', 'virtio-serial')
+        server_vm.add_args('-device',
+            'virtserialport,chardev=sock0,name=org.fedoraproject.port.0')
+
+    def configure_client_vm_args(self, client_vm, sock_path):
+        """
+        Configuration for the client VM. Point the vfio-user-pci device to the
+        socket path configured above.
+        """
+
+        client_vm.add_args('-kernel', self.kernel_path)
+        client_vm.add_args('-append', 'console=ttyS0 root=/dev/sda')
+        client_vm.add_args('-drive',
+            f'file={self.rootfs_path},if=ide,format=raw,id=drv0')
+        client_vm.add_args('-snapshot')
+        client_vm.add_args('-device',
+            '{"driver":"vfio-user-pci",' +
+            '"socket":{"path": "%s", "type": "unix"}}' % sock_path)
+
+    def setup_vfio_user_pci_server(self, server_vm):
+        """
+        Start the libvfio-user server within the server VM, and arrange
+        for data to shuttle between its socket and the virtio serial port.
+        """
+        wait_for_console_pattern(self, 'login:', None, server_vm)
+        exec_command_and_wait_for_pattern(self, 'root', '#', None, server_vm)
+
+        exec_command_and_wait_for_pattern(self,
+            'gpio-pci-idio-16 -v /tmp/vfio-user.sock >/var/tmp/gpio.out 2>&1 &',
+            '#', None, server_vm)
+        # wait for libvfio-user to initialize properly
+        exec_command_and_wait_for_pattern(self, 'sleep 5', '#', None, server_vm)
+        exec_command_and_wait_for_pattern(self,
+            'socat UNIX-CONNECT:/tmp/vfio-user.sock /dev/vport0p1,ignoreeof ' +
+            ' &', '#', None, server_vm)
+
+    def test_vfio_user_pci(self):
+        self.prepare_images()
+        self.set_machine('pc')
+        self.require_device('virtio-serial')
+        self.require_device('vfio-user-pci')
+
+        sock_dir = self.socket_dir()
+        socket_path = sock_dir.name + '/vfio-user.sock'
+
+        server_vm = self.get_vm(name='server')
+        server_vm.set_console()
+        self.configure_server_vm_args(server_vm, socket_path)
+
+        server_vm.launch()
+
+        self.log.debug('starting libvfio-user server')
+
+        self.setup_vfio_user_pci_server(server_vm)
+
+        client_vm = self.get_vm(name="client")
+        client_vm.set_console()
+        self.configure_client_vm_args(client_vm, socket_path)
+
+        try:
+            client_vm.launch()
+        except:
+            self.log.error('client VM failed to start, dumping server logs')
+            exec_command_and_wait_for_pattern(self, 'cat /var/tmp/gpio.out',
+                '#', None, server_vm)
+            raise
+
+        self.log.debug('waiting for client VM boot')
+
+        wait_for_console_pattern(self, 'login:', None, client_vm)
+        exec_command_and_wait_for_pattern(self, 'root', '#', None, client_vm)
+
+        #
+        # Here, we'd like to actually interact with the gpio device a little
+        # more as described at:
+        #
+        # https://github.com/nutanix/libvfio-user/blob/master/docs/qemu.md
+        #
+        # Unfortunately, the buildroot Linux kernel has some undiagnosed issue
+        # so we don't get /sys/class/gpio. Nonetheless just the basic
+        # initialization and setup is enough for basic testing of vfio-user.
+        #
+
+        self.log.debug('collecting libvfio-user server output')
+
+        out = exec_command_and_wait_for_pattern(self,
+            'cat /var/tmp/gpio.out',
+            'gpio: region2: wrote 0 to (0x1:1)',
+            None, server_vm)
+
+        gpio_server_out = [s for s in out.decode().splitlines()
+                                   if s.startswith("gpio:")]
+
+        for line in EXPECTED_SERVER_LINES:
+            if line not in gpio_server_out:
+                self.log.error(f'Missing server debug line: {line}')
+                self.fail(False)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    QemuSystemTest.main()
-- 
2.43.0

Re: [PATCH v5] tests/functional: add a vfio-user smoke test

[Thomas Huth]

  Hi!

On 11/09/2025 16.22, John Levon wrote:
> From: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.caveayland@nutanix.com>
> 
> Add a basic test of the vfio-user PCI client implementation.
> 
> Co-authored-by: John Levon <john.levon@nutanix.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.caveayland@nutanix.com>
> Signed-off-by: John Levon <john.levon@nutanix.com>
> ---
...
> diff --git a/tests/functional/x86_64/test_vfio_user_client.py b/tests/functional/x86_64/test_vfio_user_client.py
> new file mode 100755
> index 0000000000..1e4c5bc875
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tests/functional/x86_64/test_vfio_user_client.py
> @@ -0,0 +1,197 @@
> +#!/usr/bin/env python3
> +#
> +# Copyright (c) 2025 Nutanix, Inc.
> +#
> +# Author:
> +#  Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.caveayland@nutanix.com>
> +#  John Levon <john.levon@nutanix.com>
> +#
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
> +"""
> +Check basic vfio-user-pci client functionality. The test starts two VMs:
> +
> +    - the server VM runs the libvfio-user "gpio" example server inside it,
> +      piping vfio-user traffic between a local UNIX socket and a virtio-serial
> +      port. On the host, the virtio-serial port is backed by a local socket.
> +
> +    - the client VM loads the gpio-pci-idio-16 kernel module, with the
> +      vfio-user client connecting to the above local UNIX socket.
> +
> +This way, we don't depend on trying to run a vfio-user server on the host
> +itself.
> +
> +Once both VMs are running, we run some basic configuration on the gpio device
> +and verify that the server is logging the expected out. As this is consistent
> +given the same VM images, we just do a simple direct comparison.
> +"""

I'm not a python expert, but I guess it would make sense to move that 
description block next to the "class VfioUserClient(QemuSystemTest):" line 
so that it's the description for the class? (that would fix the "Missing 
class docstring" that you get when using "pylint" on your code)

> +import difflib
> +import logging
> +import os
> +import select
> +import shutil
> +import socket
> +import subprocess
> +import time

pylint complains:

tests/functional/x86_64/test_vfio_user_client.py:28:0: W0611: Unused import 
difflib (unused-import)
tests/functional/x86_64/test_vfio_user_client.py:29:0: W0611: Unused import 
logging (unused-import)
tests/functional/x86_64/test_vfio_user_client.py:30:0: W0611: Unused import 
os (unused-import)
tests/functional/x86_64/test_vfio_user_client.py:31:0: W0611: Unused import 
select (unused-import)
tests/functional/x86_64/test_vfio_user_client.py:32:0: W0611: Unused import 
shutil (unused-import)
tests/functional/x86_64/test_vfio_user_client.py:33:0: W0611: Unused import 
socket (unused-import)
tests/functional/x86_64/test_vfio_user_client.py:34:0: W0611: Unused import 
subprocess (unused-import)
tests/functional/x86_64/test_vfio_user_client.py:35:0: W0611: Unused import 
time (unused-import)

... so I think you can remove those.

> +from qemu_test import Asset
> +from qemu_test import QemuSystemTest
> +from qemu_test import exec_command

Same for "exec_command" ... you don't use it in your test here.

> +from qemu_test import exec_command_and_wait_for_pattern
> +from qemu_test import wait_for_console_pattern
> +
> +# Exact output can vary, so we just sample for some expected lines.
> +EXPECTED_SERVER_LINES = [
> +    "gpio: adding DMA region [0, 0xc0000) offset=0 flags=0x3",
> +    "gpio: devinfo flags 0x3, num_regions 9, num_irqs 5",
> +    "gpio: region_info[0] offset 0 flags 0 size 0 argsz 32",
> +    "gpio: region_info[1] offset 0 flags 0 size 0 argsz 32",
> +    "gpio: region_info[2] offset 0 flags 0x3 size 256 argsz 32",
> +    "gpio: region_info[3] offset 0 flags 0 size 0 argsz 32",
> +    "gpio: region_info[4] offset 0 flags 0 size 0 argsz 32",
> +    "gpio: region_info[5] offset 0 flags 0 size 0 argsz 32",
> +    "gpio: region_info[7] offset 0 flags 0x3 size 256 argsz 32",
> +    "gpio: region7: read 256 bytes at 0",
> +    "gpio: region7: read 0 from (0x30:4)",
> +    "gpio: cleared EROM",
> +    "gpio: I/O space enabled",
> +    "gpio: memory space enabled",
> +    "gpio: SERR# enabled",
> +    "gpio: region7: wrote 0x103 to (0x4:2)",
> +    "gpio: I/O space enabled",
> +    "gpio: memory space enabled",
> +]
> +
> +class VfioUserClient(QemuSystemTest):
> +
> +    ASSET_REPO = 'https://github.com/mcayland-ntx/libvfio-user-test'

Not sure whether that indirection works with the asset pre-caching 
mechanism? Daniel, could you comment on that?

> +    ASSET_KERNEL = Asset(
> +        f'{ASSET_REPO}/raw/refs/heads/main/images/bzImage',
> +        '40292fa6ce95d516e26bccf5974e138d0db65a6de0bc540cabae060fe9dea605'
> +    )
> +
> +    ASSET_ROOTFS = Asset(
> +        f'{ASSET_REPO}/raw/refs/heads/main/images/rootfs.ext2',
> +        'e1e3abae8aebb8e6e77f08b1c531caeacf46250c94c815655c6bbea59fc3d1c1'
> +    )
> +
> +
> +    def prepare_images(self):
> +        """Download the images for the VMs."""
> +        self.kernel_path = self.ASSET_KERNEL.fetch()
> +        self.rootfs_path = self.ASSET_ROOTFS.fetch()
> +
> +    def configure_server_vm_args(self, server_vm, sock_path):
> +        """
> +        Configuration for the server VM. Set up virtio-serial device backed by
> +        the given socket path.
> +        """
> +        server_vm.add_args('-kernel', self.kernel_path)
> +        server_vm.add_args('-append', 'console=ttyS0 root=/dev/sda')
> +        server_vm.add_args('-drive',
> +            f"file={self.rootfs_path},if=ide,format=raw,id=drv0")
> +        server_vm.add_args('-snapshot')
> +        server_vm.add_args('-chardev',
> +            f"socket,id=sock0,path={sock_path},telnet=off,server=on,wait=off")
> +        server_vm.add_args('-device', 'virtio-serial')
> +        server_vm.add_args('-device',
> +            'virtserialport,chardev=sock0,name=org.fedoraproject.port.0')
> +
> +    def configure_client_vm_args(self, client_vm, sock_path):
> +        """
> +        Configuration for the client VM. Point the vfio-user-pci device to the
> +        socket path configured above.
> +        """
> +
> +        client_vm.add_args('-kernel', self.kernel_path)
> +        client_vm.add_args('-append', 'console=ttyS0 root=/dev/sda')
> +        client_vm.add_args('-drive',
> +            f'file={self.rootfs_path},if=ide,format=raw,id=drv0')
> +        client_vm.add_args('-snapshot')
> +        client_vm.add_args('-device',
> +            '{"driver":"vfio-user-pci",' +
> +            '"socket":{"path": "%s", "type": "unix"}}' % sock_path)
> +
> +    def setup_vfio_user_pci_server(self, server_vm):
> +        """
> +        Start the libvfio-user server within the server VM, and arrange
> +        for data to shuttle between its socket and the virtio serial port.
> +        """
> +        wait_for_console_pattern(self, 'login:', None, server_vm)
> +        exec_command_and_wait_for_pattern(self, 'root', '#', None, server_vm)
> +
> +        exec_command_and_wait_for_pattern(self,
> +            'gpio-pci-idio-16 -v /tmp/vfio-user.sock >/var/tmp/gpio.out 2>&1 &',
> +            '#', None, server_vm)
> +        # wait for libvfio-user to initialize properly
> +        exec_command_and_wait_for_pattern(self, 'sleep 5', '#', None, server_vm)

Could the sleep be avoided? ... it's still a race condition (even if it's 
unlikely when you wait for 5 seconds), and always sleeping 5 seconds slows 
down the test quite a bit ...

Could you maybe poll something instead, e.g. output of "dmesg" or something 
in the file system? (sorry, I don't have any clue about vfio-user, so I 
don't know any better suggestions)

> +        exec_command_and_wait_for_pattern(self,
> +            'socat UNIX-CONNECT:/tmp/vfio-user.sock /dev/vport0p1,ignoreeof ' +
> +            ' &', '#', None, server_vm)
> +
> +    def test_vfio_user_pci(self):
> +        self.prepare_images()

Please move the "prepare_images" after the set_machine() and 
require_device() calls. Reason: set_machine() and require_device() could 
skip the test if it's not available in the qemu binary, so in that case you 
don't want to try to fetch the assets first.

> +        self.set_machine('pc')
> +        self.require_device('virtio-serial')
> +        self.require_device('vfio-user-pci')
> +
> +        sock_dir = self.socket_dir()
> +        socket_path = sock_dir.name + '/vfio-user.sock'

Better use os.path.join() instead of hard-coding slashes.

  Thanks,
   Thomas

Re: [PATCH v5] tests/functional: add a vfio-user smoke test

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 05:27:24PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
>  Hi!
> 
> On 11/09/2025 16.22, John Levon wrote:
> > From: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.caveayland@nutanix.com>
> > 
> > Add a basic test of the vfio-user PCI client implementation.
> > 
> > Co-authored-by: John Levon <john.levon@nutanix.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.caveayland@nutanix.com>
> > Signed-off-by: John Levon <john.levon@nutanix.com>
> > ---
> ...
> > diff --git a/tests/functional/x86_64/test_vfio_user_client.py b/tests/functional/x86_64/test_vfio_user_client.py
> > new file mode 100755
> > index 0000000000..1e4c5bc875
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/tests/functional/x86_64/test_vfio_user_client.py

> > +class VfioUserClient(QemuSystemTest):
> > +
> > +    ASSET_REPO = 'https://github.com/mcayland-ntx/libvfio-user-test'
> 
> Not sure whether that indirection works with the asset pre-caching
> mechanism? Daniel, could you comment on that?

It should be fine - the asset caching loads the class and
at that time python will have done the substitution.

> 
> > +    ASSET_KERNEL = Asset(
> > +        f'{ASSET_REPO}/raw/refs/heads/main/images/bzImage',
> > +        '40292fa6ce95d516e26bccf5974e138d0db65a6de0bc540cabae060fe9dea605'
> > +    )
> > +
> > +    ASSET_ROOTFS = Asset(
> > +        f'{ASSET_REPO}/raw/refs/heads/main/images/rootfs.ext2',
> > +        'e1e3abae8aebb8e6e77f08b1c531caeacf46250c94c815655c6bbea59fc3d1c1'
> > +    )



> > +    def prepare_images(self):
> > +        """Download the images for the VMs."""
> > +        self.kernel_path = self.ASSET_KERNEL.fetch()
> > +        self.rootfs_path = self.ASSET_ROOTFS.fetch()

Just put this inline, it doesn't seem this method now we removed
the extra copying logic

> > +
> > +    def configure_server_vm_args(self, server_vm, sock_path):
> > +        """
> > +        Configuration for the server VM. Set up virtio-serial device backed by
> > +        the given socket path.
> > +        """
> > +        server_vm.add_args('-kernel', self.kernel_path)
> > +        server_vm.add_args('-append', 'console=ttyS0 root=/dev/sda')
> > +        server_vm.add_args('-drive',
> > +            f"file={self.rootfs_path},if=ide,format=raw,id=drv0")
> > +        server_vm.add_args('-snapshot')
> > +        server_vm.add_args('-chardev',
> > +            f"socket,id=sock0,path={sock_path},telnet=off,server=on,wait=off")
> > +        server_vm.add_args('-device', 'virtio-serial')
> > +        server_vm.add_args('-device',
> > +            'virtserialport,chardev=sock0,name=org.fedoraproject.port.0')
> > +
> > +    def configure_client_vm_args(self, client_vm, sock_path):
> > +        """
> > +        Configuration for the client VM. Point the vfio-user-pci device to the
> > +        socket path configured above.
> > +        """
> > +
> > +        client_vm.add_args('-kernel', self.kernel_path)
> > +        client_vm.add_args('-append', 'console=ttyS0 root=/dev/sda')
> > +        client_vm.add_args('-drive',
> > +            f'file={self.rootfs_path},if=ide,format=raw,id=drv0')
> > +        client_vm.add_args('-snapshot')
> > +        client_vm.add_args('-device',
> > +            '{"driver":"vfio-user-pci",' +
> > +            '"socket":{"path": "%s", "type": "unix"}}' % sock_path)
> > +
> > +    def setup_vfio_user_pci_server(self, server_vm):
> > +        """
> > +        Start the libvfio-user server within the server VM, and arrange
> > +        for data to shuttle between its socket and the virtio serial port.
> > +        """
> > +        wait_for_console_pattern(self, 'login:', None, server_vm)
> > +        exec_command_and_wait_for_pattern(self, 'root', '#', None, server_vm)
> > +
> > +        exec_command_and_wait_for_pattern(self,
> > +            'gpio-pci-idio-16 -v /tmp/vfio-user.sock >/var/tmp/gpio.out 2>&1 &',
> > +            '#', None, server_vm)
> > +        # wait for libvfio-user to initialize properly
> > +        exec_command_and_wait_for_pattern(self, 'sleep 5', '#', None, server_vm)
> 
> Could the sleep be avoided? ... it's still a race condition (even if it's
> unlikely when you wait for 5 seconds), and always sleeping 5 seconds slows
> down the test quite a bit ...
> 
> Could you maybe poll something instead, e.g. output of "dmesg" or something
> in the file system? (sorry, I don't have any clue about vfio-user, so I
> don't know any better suggestions)
> 
> > +        exec_command_and_wait_for_pattern(self,
> > +            'socat UNIX-CONNECT:/tmp/vfio-user.sock /dev/vport0p1,ignoreeof ' +
> > +            ' &', '#', None, server_vm)
> > +
> > +    def test_vfio_user_pci(self):
> > +        self.prepare_images()
> 
> Please move the "prepare_images" after the set_machine() and
> require_device() calls. Reason: set_machine() and require_device() could
> skip the test if it's not available in the qemu binary, so in that case you
> don't want to try to fetch the assets first.
> 
> > +        self.set_machine('pc')
> > +        self.require_device('virtio-serial')
> > +        self.require_device('vfio-user-pci')
> > +
> > +        sock_dir = self.socket_dir()
> > +        socket_path = sock_dir.name + '/vfio-user.sock'
> 
> Better use os.path.join() instead of hard-coding slashes.
> 
>  Thanks,
>   Thomas
> 

With regards,
Daniel
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Re: [PATCH v5] tests/functional: add a vfio-user smoke test

[John Levon]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 05:27:24PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:

> I'm not a python expert, but I guess it would make sense to move that
> description block next to the "class VfioUserClient(QemuSystemTest):" line
> so that it's the description for the class? (that would fix the "Missing
> class docstring" that you get when using "pylint" on your code)

Then pylint complains about the module missing docs, so I think the current
location is a bit better, and I'll add a single line for the class, and made the
file pylint clean generally.

> > +        # wait for libvfio-user to initialize properly
> > +        exec_command_and_wait_for_pattern(self, 'sleep 5', '#', None, server_vm)
> 
> Could the sleep be avoided? ... it's still a race condition (even if it's
> unlikely when you wait for 5 seconds), and always sleeping 5 seconds slows
> down the test quite a bit ...

Currently stress testing a loop that just waits for the socket to appear, so far
so good.

thanks
john