Re: venv for python qtest bits? (was: Re: [PATCH 11/12] acpi/tests/bits: add README file for bits qtests)

[Peter Maydell]

On Tue, 28 Jun 2022 at 12:50, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> I think the main difference is not even in how it works, it's
> in what it does. Which is check that ACPI tables are sane.
> Who cares about that? Well developers do when they change the
> tables. Users really don't because for users we have the expected
> tables in tree and we check against these.

It wants to build and run a big guest binary blob -- that to me is
the main difference. Users don't much care about any of our tests,
whether they're under 'make check' or 'make check-avocado' or the
iotests framework. The reason to pick one framework or another
is mostly I think whether the properties of the test are such
that one framework works better. Avocado is (for better or worse)
the one we have for dealing with "actually run a guest machine
with a big lump of guest code in it".

-- PMM