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 14:53, Ani Sinha <ani@anisinha.ca> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 19:15 Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
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>> On Tue, 28 Jun 2022 at 14:23, Ani Sinha <ani@anisinha.ca> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 6:25 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> 
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>> > > This proposed biosbits test also involves a considerable download.
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>> > I do not think 50 MB is "considerable" . Last time I tried to run
>> > avocado tests, my laptop ran out of disk space!
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>> I think 50MB is pretty big. It might be smaller than some other
>> avocado tests, but it's not exactly the "no binary involved"
>> that most qtests are.
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> Well bios-tables-test uses the binary blobs of the acpi tables. Only 
> difference is that in this case, we could maintain them within  the qemu 
> tree. In this case the blob in slightly larger and comes from a third party. 
> That is the difference.

Yes. That is exactly the difference that means it should go in
the avocado tests.

-- PMM