Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] qtest: enable qtest for most targets

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 17/04/2012 09:33, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
> > I think the issue is that all of these machines mandate a -kernel option.
> >  qtest doesn't care if you pass a -kernel but requiring a kernel in order to
> > test a device sucks especially if you don't possess the toolchain to build
> > such a kernel.
> 
> Just testing a device shouldn't require running a particular
> board model either, of course.

qtest isn't so much testing a device.  It is really testing a board with
improved determinism, debuggability and logging.

That said, I think a simpler solution is to set kernel/initrd/dtb to
"/dev/null" if qtest is enabled.

Paolo