Re: [Qemu-devel] Status and RFC of patchew testings on QEMU

[Max Reitz]

On 2017-07-17 13:31, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 17.07.2017 um 12:49 hat Peter Maydell geschrieben:
>> On 17 July 2017 at 11:39, Kevin Wolf <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Only today I noticed again that two recently merged pull requests broke
>>> qemu-iotests cases, so I must assume that apart from some block
>>> maintainers, nobody runs it regularly.
>>
>> If "make check" doesn't run it, it doesn't get run :-)
>> I actually looked into trying to run qemu-iotests tests
>> for the recent patches I sent for vpc and vmdk image format
>> handler fixes, but I couldn't get it to do anything sensible
>> and I couldn't find any documentation, so I gave up and
>> assumed that "make check" plus manual testing was good enough...
> 
> I think we had it in 'make check' for a while, but I seem to remember
> that people complained about things like the disk space that some of the
> tests needed for temporary files, and some exotic systems didn't support
> sparse files or something like that.

Wasn't that exotic system HFS+ on OS X/macOS? As far as I'm informed,
macOS has recently switched to APFS which does have sparse files (and I
think they have automatically converted running systems to APFS).

Max

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