Re: [PATCH OSSTEST] make_qcow2: Look for qemu-img under /usr as well as /usr/local

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>]

On Tue, 2015-09-22 at 22:36 +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Sep 2015, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > (CCing Stefano)
> > 
> > Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [PATCH OSSTEST] make_qcow2: Look for qemu-img
> > under /usr as well as /usr/local"):
> > > On Tue, 2015-09-22 at 16:41 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > > Ian Campbell writes ("[PATCH OSSTEST] make_qcow2: Look for qemu-img
> > > > under
> > > > /usr as well as /usr/local"):
> > > > > Older Xen's installed in /usr by default, so we need to check
> > > > > where
> > > > > qemu-img if we want these tests to work on those versions.
> > > > 
> > > > Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
> > > > 
> > > > But, why are we executing a utility from /usr/lib/xen/bin ?  If
> > > > this
> > > > utility is useful to osstest it is presumably useful to users too,
> > > > and
> > > > in that case it should be on PATH (under some suitable name).
> > > 
> > > We install qemu-upstream under our own prefix, I think to avoid
> > > conficting
> > > with the users own qemu installations?
> > > 
> > > qemu-img comes from there. We do install qemu-xen-img (from trad)
> > > into
> > > $PATH, but when I wrote this test I thought it preferable to use qemu
> > > -img.
> > 
> > Maybe we should be installing qemu-img from our qemu upstream build
> > instead ?
> > 
> > We evidently don't think that there is anything in the qcow block
> > system in trad that we like, because we are only using upstream for
> > qdisk vbd backends now.
> 
> Yes, this is a good idea. Qcow support is much better in upstream QEMU
> compared to qemu-trad.

So I think the plan of attack should be:

Make osstest use qemu-xen-img out of $PATH instead of hardcoding the full
path to qemu-upstreams's qemu-img (which is in our $libexec). This will
cause everything to switch to qemu-trad's version of qemu-xen.

Modify xen.git (and raisin?) to stop installing the qemu-trad version of
qemu-img as qemu-xen-img in $PATH and instead start installing qemu
-upstream's version with that name.

We also need to check that whatever libraries used by qemu-img are in an
appropriate place, or that rpath is used.

Are they any other similar tools which we should consider doing this for?

Who is going to write those patches?

Ian.