Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH risu] A script to run concurrently the master and the apprentice

[Peter Maydell]

On 8 December 2016 at 23:21, Laurent Vivier <address@hidden> wrote:
> This expect script will generate the .out file and then
> start the apprentice in a chroot and the master on the reference
> hardware. The list of patterns is given on the command line.
>
> As my reference system is very slow, ssh can take more than 2 minutes,
> this script starts a ssh and a chroot once, and interacts with
> them to run the list of instruction patterns given on the command line.
>
> Some environment variables define the test environment:
> - RISU_ARCH: the pattern file used will be $RISU_ARCH.risu
> - RISU_MASTER: the IP address or name of the reference hardware (for ssh)
> - RISU_CHROOT: the path of the QEMU chroot to start the apprentice
> - RISU_PATH: the path, common to master and apprentice (you can use NFS),
>              where the risu files are stored (binaries and data).
>

Thanks, and sorry I didn't get round to replying to this sooner.
I'm not sure this is something I would use personally, but it
might be helpful to others, so I've opted to put it into a new
contrib/ subdirectory, and added a note to the README about contrib/.
Pushed to risu master.

thanks
-- PMM