Re: venv for python qtest bits? (was: Re: [PATCH 11/12] acpi/tests/bits: add README file for bits qtests)

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 06:12:48AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 09:23:06AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > So bundling a pre-built biosbits in QEMU appears to mean that we're in
> > turn going to unexpectedly bundle a bunch of other 3rd party projects
> > too, all with dubious license compliance.
> 
> Well looks like classical mere aggregation to me ... license issues
> need to be figured out if we are to distribute things but I think
> this is basically what distros do anyway.
> 
> And I doubt we want to support arbitrary versions of grub etc,
> they are very distro specific tools.
> I don't see why we can't have the resulting ISOs in some submodule -
> nothing requires us to distribute it in qemu tarballs.

If we don't distribute it in the tarballs then these tests won't be
usable for testing release builds of QEMU which feels wrong to me.

With regards,
Daniel
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