Re: [Qemu-devel] scsi-testsuite for virtio-scsi

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 04/28/2012 09:34 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>
>> Il 28/04/2012 03:45, Zhi Yong Wu ha scritto:
>>>>>
>>>>> It's based on qemu-iotests, so the structure is familiar but uses
>>>>> sg3-utils to send SCSI commands instead of qemu-io.
>>>
>>> I think that those tests should be ran in guest, qemu-iotests has been
>>> merged into QEMU upstream, and those tests in it are mainly executed
>>> in host. Then will these scsi tests be maintained out of qemu-iotests?
>>>
>>
>> Yes, we can run these in qemu-test if Anthony adds sg_utils to qemu-jeos.
>
>
> FWIW, it ought to be trivial to setup a small Fedora guest that can run
> qemu-test tests.
>
> The only trouble is it'll run slower than qemu-jeos and we can't easily host
> binaries.  It also won't work for most architectures other than x86.

It's not ideal but if we had a kickstart file or another way of
building the guest with a single command, then at least regular QEMU
SCSI contributors and maintainers can use the test suite - I think a
Fedora guest would be fine.

Stefan