Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-iotests: look for qemu-iotests-$ARCH

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 01:09:14PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> I'm not sure that the KVM point of view really matters here. I can see
> two possible use cases for qemu: Either we just start it up without a
> guest OS to do things like a simple savevm, then TCG is just as good. Or
> we boot up a guest OS, then we obviously need the architecture matching
> the guest, not the host.

Right now we don't use any guest so that it doesn't really matter.  If
we actually end up running a guest we should agree on an architecture,
and also boundle the require guest (which would have to be a really
minimal one) in the qemu-iotests repository.  But for now I'd just avoid
requiring any guests.

> Maybe something like trying qemu-system-x86_64, then qemu-kvm, then
> qemu? We could use i386 guests on every host then. If it's accelerated
> with KVM, kqemu or not at all doesn't really matter.

Ok, fine with me.  I'll respin the patch.