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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] qemu-iotest only for Linux?
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Christoph Hellwig |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] qemu-iotest only for Linux? |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:16:10 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) |
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 07:59:20AM +0000, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:04:24PM +0100, Stefan Weil wrote:
> > What's the reason for "_supported_os Linux" in each test?
> > Because of this statement, the tests only run on Linux today,
> > although they could also run on BSD, w32 and other operating
> > systems (maybe small fixes are needed).
> >
> > I don't think that adding every possible OS to each test
> > would be a good solution. Can we remove this OS dependency
> > completely?
>
> In many cases the _supported_os was probably copy-pasted when creating
> new tests. However, we can be pretty sure that the tests haven't all
> been run on anything other than Linux and maybe Windows recently.
Yes.
> I think we can support other host OSes but we should combine this with
> adding "make check" and maybe "make check-block" to the buildbot - that
> way we'll be notified if the tests break. There are Linux, Solaris, and
> OpenBSD buildslaves.
For now please add the Oses it actually works as documentation, once
we have a good overview we can add classes like "generic" or "posix"