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Tsirkin" To: Daniel =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=2E_Berrang=E9?= Cc: Ani Sinha , Thomas Huth , John Snow , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Laurent Vivier , Paolo Bonzini , imammedo@redhat.com Subject: Re: venv for python qtest bits? (was: Re: [PATCH 11/12] acpi/tests/bits: add README file for bits qtests) Message-ID: <20220628071510-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <7bf5976e-8277-7c78-f412-44f7be8754f4@redhat.com> <59150265-44ed-0b14-df1c-42e3f2e97b7e@redhat.com> <20220628060510-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=170.10.129.124; envelope-from=mst@redhat.com; helo=us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com X-Spam_score_int: -28 X-Spam_score: -2.9 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIMWL_WL_HIGH=-0.082, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 11:42:37AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 03:58:21PM +0530, Ani Sinha wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 3:37 PM Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 11:04:30AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > > > If it is actually booting a real guest image (from biosbits) and interacting > > > > with it, then it does feel like the scope of this testing is more appropriate > > > > to QEMU's avocado framework than qtest, especially given the desire to use > > > > python for it all. > > > > > > > > With regards, > > > > Daniel > > > > > > I feel avocado is directed towards booting full fledged guest OS. > > > It makes it much easier to figure out guest issues but it also > > > prone to false positives and is harder to debug as a result. > > > Booting a minimal image like this shouldn't require that. > > > > Yes 100% agree with Michael on this. Biobits is *not* booting any OS > > image. It runs off grub, that is, directly from bootloader stage. The > > interraction with the VM is minimal. > > Just because it doesn't run a whole Linux kernel, doesn't make it > not a guest OS image. It is merely unsual in that it can do everything > it needs from grub stage, because it is just poking low level BIOS > stuff and doesn't need a full OS like Linux on top. This is still > functional integration testing IMHO and relevant to avocado in QEMU. > > With regards, > Daniel I wonder why it needs grub BTW. Let's just load all of disk into ram and be done with it? > -- > |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| > |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| > |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|