Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 1/4] iotests: add script_initialize

[John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>]

On 9/18/19 9:05 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 18/09/2019 00.29, John Snow wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 9/16/19 10:56 AM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
> [...]
>>> Finally do we support something except linux for iotests?
>>> for bash tests _supported_os also used only with "Linux" in 87 tests..
> 
> The iotests in the "auto" group are supposed to work on other OSes
> beside Linux, too, since they are run automatically during "make check"
> now. You can use github with cirrus-ci to check FreeBSD and macOS, see
> e.g.: https://cirrus-ci.com/build/5114679677943808
> 
> Travis has support for macOS, too.
> 
> And to test them on OpenBSD (or FreeBSD), you can use the VM tests, e.g.
> something like this:
> 
> make vm-build-openbsd J=8 BUILD_TARGET=check-block \
>    EXTRA_CONFIGURE_OPTS=--target-list=x86_64-softmmu
> 
>> aaand lastly, running `make check` doesn't happen to call any of the
>> tests that appear broken on FreeBSD right now, so I'm just going to go
>> ahead and say we can open Pandora's box and make the default python test
>> behavior to run on any OS, and start re-blacklisting the edge-cases as
>> we find them.
> 
> Sounds good. If it breaks on FreeBSD or macOS, we'll find out with
> cirrus-ci or Travis pretty soon.
> 

Yeah. It's annoying, but genuinely the quickest way to figure it out. 
Keep an eye on the v5 of this series for fallout.

--js