Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] qcow2: Fix warnings in check_refcount()

[Ryan Harper]

* Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> [2009-04-17 17:38]:
> Kevin Wolf wrote:
> >Am Samstag, 18. April 2009 00:07 schrieben Sie:
> >  
> >>Every patch I commit gets tested.  I have various tests that I run
> >>depending on which subsystem the patch touches.  Right now, for qcow2, I
> >>don't have nearly enough.  I was hoping that Christoph had something
> >>laying around that I could use since it looks like qemu-io would be a
> >>great harness for qcow2 changes.
> >>    
> >
> >It is, definitely. qemu-io is the other part which I needed. But qemu-io 
> >alone won't make you happy. It can exercise a lot of code, but it can't 
> >tell you if your image is broken in the end. Except for reading back 
> >written data, of course, but breakage is often enough more subtle.
> >
> >  
> >>But I can write a pretty easy script myself on top of qemu-io so it's no
> >>big deal.  I'm not suggesting holding up development.
> >>    
> >
> >Heh, so everyone is writing his own scripts. What would you think about 
> >bringing the test cases you use into the repository?
> >  
> 
> Yeah, I've been wanting to do everything via kvm-autotest but so far, 
> it's not quite up to what I want to use it for.  I'll see about cleaning 
> up some of my scripts and posting them.  The problem is they rely on 
> custom images.

If you post em, I'm sure we can work it in.


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Ryan Harper
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