Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] qemu-iotest only for Linux?

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:04:24PM +0100, Stefan Weil wrote:
> What's the reason for "_supported_os Linux" in each test?
> Because of this statement, the tests only run on Linux today,
> although they could also run on BSD, w32 and other operating
> systems (maybe small fixes are needed).
> 
> I don't think that adding every possible OS to each test
> would be a good solution. Can we remove this OS dependency
> completely?

In many cases the _supported_os was probably copy-pasted when creating
new tests.  However, we can be pretty sure that the tests haven't all
been run on anything other than Linux and maybe Windows recently.

I think we can support other host OSes but we should combine this with
adding "make check" and maybe "make check-block" to the buildbot - that
way we'll be notified if the tests break.  There are Linux, Solaris, and
OpenBSD buildslaves.

Stefan