Re: [Qemu-devel] [RESEND PATCH v3 0/8] libqos: use standard virtio headers

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 10/05/2016 11:59, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > I still dream of having qtests written in Python; I agree that for now
> > this makes sense.
> 
> Is there any particular Python feature that you miss?

I would like to use QMP more and to autodiscover buses (so that every
SCSI test can be run on both virtio-scsi and LSI SAS, just by writing a
"driver" for LSI SAS), and I would like to write that code in anything
but C. :)

> Writing low-level device tests in C seems okay to me.

Yes, it's fine---but writing tests that also interact with the monitor
is a bit worse, similar to how qemu-iotests is part shell and part Python.

> The problem is that the longer we wait, the harder it becomes to move to
> Python.  We'd need all the PCI, virtio, etc frameworks ported to Python.

True...  but I can still dream. ;)

Paolo

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