Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Future goals for autotest and virtualization tests

[Anthony Liguori]

On 03/09/2012 05:20 AM, Cleber Rosa wrote:
> > > You're comparing developer-level tests with the existent QA-level
> > > tests (much more complex).
> >
> > Let's be specific then. Look at device-add.sh in qemu-test. It's 71LOC.
> > pci_hotplug.py in autotest is 204LOC.
>
> pci_hotplug.py does much more than device-add.sh:
>
> * tests both pci_add and device_add commands
> * checks the monitor syntax for adding a new drive, that is, it works on HEAD
> and on other versions (such as the ones in some RHEL releases);
> * tests both nic and block hotplug
> * for block, tests with both virtio and scsi
> * also does device removal, both for pci_add and device_add syntaxes

Ok, but clearly, there's no magic in autotest that makes this sufficiently 
easier.  It's just a matter of:

cmd=`named_choose command device_add pci_add`

if test $cmd = "device_add"; then
  qmp device_add --driver=virtio-blk-pci --drive=hd0
else
  hmp pci_add auto virtio-blk-pci,drive=hd0
fi

It's not there today because pci_add is deprecated.  There assertion was that 
autotest makes it easier to write tests.  How does it make it easier to write 
pci_hotplug?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori