Re: [Qemu-devel] the qemu-iotests test suite is now available

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:03:39AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> 
> The only thing that would be nice to have is the ability to point it at 
> a build directory.  Setting PATH isn't enough because it expects a qemu 
> executable whereas my build directory has a qemu-system-x86_64 executable.

Now that you remember it I remember the qemu-system-x86_64 problem.  I
think we can try the various qemu-system-$foo binaries instead.

> Why does it need to run qemu?  Shouldn't qemu-io/qemu-img be enough?

Test 007 uses the savevm command in the qemu monitor.  I suspect we
could appromiate it whith the snapshot commands in qemu-img, but
touching existing testcases is pretty nasty.