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

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 09:21:38PM +0100, Peter Lieven wrote:
> Am 24.02.2014 13:54, schrieb 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?
> The NFS driver and bare qemu-iotests support is merged. All the patches
> that try to fix the limit for protocol != file where left out because there
> was no consensus how the filename construction etc. should be handled.

Okay, it's the latter I was wondering about.  Let's leave it for now.

Stefan