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From: David Huff <dhuff@redhat.com>
Subject: [KVM_AUTOTEST] patch set to dynamically load tests
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 12:26:59 -0400
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resending patch set... first pass at spiting up tests into separate files... 

These relatively simple changes to kvm_runtest_2 will allow for the addition of
new tests without having modifying kvm_runtest "code."  

One would just add a newtest.py file and update the config file.  This will
simplify test development and make it easier to deploying new tests in an
existing environment.

The patch looks for tests that are not statically defined in kvm_runtest_2.py in
./kvm-autotest/client/tests/kvm_runtest_2/kvm_tests/'testname'.py and
dynamically loads a module with a corresponding method run_'testname' where
testname is defined by the "type" parameter in the config file.

looking for comments/feedback....