Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V5 0/5] tests: Add the image fuzzer with qcow2 support

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 05:12:45PM +0400, Maria Kustova wrote:
> 
> This patch series introduces the image fuzzer, a tool for stability and
> reliability testing.
> Its approach is to run large amount of tests in background. During every test 
> a
> program (e.g. qemu-img) is called to read or modify an invalid test image.
> A test image has valid inner structure defined by its format specification 
> with
> some fields having random invalid values.
> 
> Patch 1 contains documentation for the image fuzzer, patch 2 is the test 
> runner
> and remaining ones relate to the image generator for qcow2 format.
> 
> This patch series was created for the 'block-next' branch.
> 
> v4 -> v5:
> Runner:
>  * Added a warning message if a backing file failed to be created (based on
>    the review of Fam Zheng)
>  * Back up a test image before every test command
>  * Fixed always logged messages of a program under test
>  * Added a warning message if a wrong name of a program under test is 
> specified
>  * Made offset and length qemu-io arguments multiple of a sector size
>  * Print all errors to stderr

Can runner.py be moved to tests/image-fuzzer/runner.py?

That way it's immediately clear how to launch the fuzzer when looking at
the image-fuzzer/ directory.

Stefan

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