Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Future goals for autotest and virtualization tests

[Ademar Reis]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 10:36:42AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 03/08/2012 10:34 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> >Am 08.03.2012 17:10, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> >>>And, of course:
> >>>[qemu]$ test-runner --remote=autotest.qemu.org tests.d/block
> >>
> >>I don't understand what this would do.
> >
> > From the previous discussions on this topic, I suppose it would task the
> >autotest instance at autotest.qemu.org to run the block tests on my git
> >tree and send me an email with the results, or something like that. For
> >running full tests this would be a great thing to have, I don't want my
> >own development boxes to be busy for several hours. Not sure if it can
> >work for upstream, though.
> 
> I don't think that's realistic from an upstream PoV.  We don't have
> the infrastructure today to host that and the companies that do have
> that infrastructure behind their firewall I imagine.
> 

Sure, that's a goal for the long long run. We don't have anything
similar in autotest either. the host autotest.qemu.org was just an
arbitrary example.

> 
> >
> >And if you want to translate the syntax, I guess it would be make
> >remote=autotest.qemu.org check-block in your proposal. I'm fine with
> >either syntax.

Sure, make check-whatever looks good. It's less granular, but
equally good (and we can easily create the make targets if the
tool is flexible enough)

-- 
Ademar de Souza Reis Jr.
Red Hat

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