Re: [PATCH v2 07/11] acpi/tests/bits: add python test that exercizes QEMU bios tables using biosbits

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 06:09:22PM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 11:44:56PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > I also second the idea of using avocado instead of pytest, by the way.

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> Problem is I don't think avocado is yet at the level where I can
> ask random developers to use it to check their ACPI patches.
> 
> I just went ahead and rechecked and the situation isn't much better
> yet. I think the focus of avocado is system testing of full guests with
> KVM, not unit testing of ACPI.
> 
> Let's start with installation on a clean box:

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Do not do any of this stuff, it is irrelevant to QEMU's needs.
A developer using Avocado with QEMU does nothing more than:

    make check-avocado

The avocado framework itself is setup in a virtual env on first
run by the makefile. Thus the developers don't need to install
nor interact with avocado at all, merely write a test script
and put it in tests/avocado/ in QEMU git.

With regards,
Daniel
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