Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 00/18] qemu-iotests: adjust tests to work with the NFS protocol

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 06:21:50PM +0100, Peter Lieven wrote:
> In order to proceed with the integration of the NFS protocol driver into
> qemu I was asked by Stefan to add integration for NFS into the qemu-iotests.
> 
> Unfortunately, this became more complex than I had expected because most
> of the tests for non RAW formats only work with the file protocol because
> they use shell commands like cp, rm or mv which obviously don't work
> on nfs:// URLs.
> 
> This series first changes all those tests that are not working out of the
> box to support only the file protocol.
> 
> After the NFS protocol is introduced in Patch 2 I fix most of them
> to work with any protocol.
> 
> After this series the qemu-iotests for NFS run through gracefully with
> the RAW, QCOW2 and VMDK formats.
> 
> There are 3 topics open:
>  - test 051 fails regardless which protocol is used (I already send a msg
>    to the list)
>  - test 052 should work, but it seems there is a bug in the bdrv_open
>    logic if the BDRV_O_SNAPSHOT flag is set and the protocol is anything
>    else than file. Maybe someone with more understanding of the whole
>    open logic could look at this. I do not believe that its sth which
>    has to do with the NFS driver since the test fails while opening the
>    backing file and other backing file tests run without problems.
>  - other protocols like sheepdog or ssh that are allowed to use other formats
>    than raw should be tested. they actually can't never have run qemu-iotests
>    with qcow2 protocol for instance.
> 
> If you want to do your tests please make sure to have
>    [PATCHv5] block: add native support for NFS
>    [PATCH v2] vmdk: Allow vmdk_create to work with protocol

Going through my email backlog.  What is the status of this series?

Stefan