On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 17:46:30 +0200 Greg Kurz <gr...@kaod.org> wrote: > On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 17:19:20 +0200 > Christian Schoenebeck <qemu_...@crudebyte.com> wrote: > > > On Montag, 14. September 2020 14:43:25 CEST Greg Kurz wrote: > > > > So yes, looks like this also requires changes to the 9pfs 'local' fs > > > > driver on QEMU side: > > > > https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-06/msg07586.html > > > > > > > > Eric, Greg, would there be an easy way to establish QEMU test cases > > > > running > > > > the 9pfs 'local' fs driver? Right now we only have 9pfs qtest cases for > > > > QEMU which can only use the 'synth' driver, which is not helpful for > > > > such > > > > kind of issues. > > > > > > I guess it's possible to introduce new qtests that start QEMU with > > > -fsdev local instead of -fsdev synth... I haven't looked in a while > > > though, so I won't comment on "easy way" ;-) > > > > Makes sense, and I considered that approach as well. > > > > The question is the following: is there a QEMU policy about test cases that > > create/write/read/delete *real* files? I.e. should those test files be > > written > > to a certain location, and are there measures of sandboxing required? > > > > I don't know. You'll need to figure out by yourself, reading code from > other tests or asking on IRC. >
Maybe Thomas (added in Cc) can give some hints on how test cases should handle creation/deletion of real files ? > > Best regards, > > Christian Schoenebeck > > > > >