Re: [Qemu-devel] Please read: make check framework

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 10.01.2012 00:56, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> On 01/09/2012 05:22 PM, Andreas Färber wrote:
>> Am 09.01.2012 22:42, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
>>> If there's some piece of QEMU you care about, start writing tests and
>>> tie it into make check.  It's that simple :-)
>>
>> Not quite. It would be easier if we just set up some storage space with
>> images like the handful of *-test images on qemu.org.
> 
> It's not that simple.  We cannot just host an image on qemu.org without 
> getting 
> into GPL considerations.  Even beyond the GPL, I don't think having opaque 
> images that people don't understand how to recreate if they need to is a good 
> strategy.
> 
> I've considered trying to do something based on automated installation (using 
> kickstart/preseed).  This has limitations though.  It takes an extremely long 
> time to generate these having the necessary hooks with preseeds appears to be 
> very difficult.

Isn't this kind of tool called autotest? I can't see a reason to
duplicate it if you really want to go for full-blown guests.

Kevin