Re: [PATCH 2/5] qemu-nbd: fix regression with qemu-nbd --fork run over ssh

[Peter Maydell]

On Tue, 15 Aug 2023 at 15:59, Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> wrote:
> In general I think it makes sense that FAIL means that the test could
> run as expected, but we got an unexpected result (i.e. this is likely a
> QEMU bug), and SKIP means that the test couldn't meaningfully be
> performed on the host system.
>
> Making more things hard dependencies for the test would mean that it's
> harder to miss an instance like this, but it would also make it harder
> to run the test suite on a system that doesn't have the dependencies
> available (and you might not even have root privileges to install them).
>
> I think I'd leave things as they are now, but recommend that you
> occasionally check the tests reported as "not run" to see if you could
> easily provide the thing they would need.

In a utopian world we might have a "make query-test-dependencies"
or something that would list all the tools/dependencies/etc that
are missing and which tests this will cause to be skipped...

-- PMM