Re: venv for python qtest bits? (was: Re: [PATCH 11/12] acpi/tests/bits: add README file for bits qtests)

[Ani Sinha]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 3:48 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 06:07:13AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 11:04:30AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > > If it is actually booting a real guest image (from biosbits) and 
> > > interacting
> > > with it, then it does feel like the scope of this testing is more 
> > > appropriate
> > > to QEMU's avocado framework than qtest, especially given the desire to use
> > > python for it all.
> > >
> > > With regards,
> > > Daniel
> >
> > I feel avocado is directed towards booting full fledged guest OS.
>
> That's essentially what this is doing - its a custom guest OS rather

Daniel, there is no OS :-) Like there is no kernel image, no
persistent real file system (there is a fake one called pyfs), no
packages, nothing. Its very minimalistic image narrowly targeted for
one thing alone - to test the bios.

> than a common distro IIUC
>
> > It makes it much easier to figure out guest issues but it also
> > prone to false positives and is harder to debug as a result.
> > Booting a minimal image like this shouldn't require that.
>
> Well avocado is as reliable as the tests you write for it. The problems
> are largely around the images being used in avocado. If the biosbits
> testing system is reliable, then avocado will be too, and if they not
> reliable, then it will affect qtest too.
>
> With regards,
> Daniel
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