As discussed here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-10/msg00697.html
and here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-10/msg01388.html it would be good to have some more valuable iotests enabled in the "auto" group to get better iotest coverage during "make check". Since these Python-based tests require a QEMU that features a 'virtio-blk' device, we can only run the Python tests if this device is available. With binaries like qemu-system-tricore, the Python-based tests will be skipped. v5: - Added $python_unusable_because text in the fifth patch - Rebased to master and checked that everything still works fine on Travis-CI, Cirrus-CI, Gitlab-CI, OpenBSD and NetBSD. v4: - The check for 'virtio-blk' is now done in the tests/qemu-iotests/check script instead of tests/check-block.sh (to avoid to duplicate the code that searches for the right QEMU binary - and we can also still run the shell-based tests this way). - Added the new patch to check for the availability of virtio devices in the iotests 127 and 267. - The patch that drops test 130 from the "auto" group has already been merged and thus been dropped from this series. v3: - Test 183 fails on Patchew, so I removed it from the "auto" group again v2: - Checked the iotests with NetBSD, too (now that Eduardo has re-activated Gerd's patches for creating NetBSD VM images) - Use 'openbsd' instead of 'openbsd6' - Use 'grep -q' instead of 'grep' for grep'ing silently - Added the patch to disable 130 from the "auto" group John Snow (1): iotests: remove 'linux' from default supported platforms Thomas Huth (5): iotests: Test 041 only works on certain systems iotests: Test 183 does not work on macOS and OpenBSD iotests: Check for the availability of the required devices in 267 and 127 iotests: Skip Python-based tests if QEMU does not support virtio-blk iotests: Enable more tests in the 'auto' group to improve test coverage tests/qemu-iotests/041 | 3 ++- tests/qemu-iotests/127 | 2 ++ tests/qemu-iotests/183 | 1 + tests/qemu-iotests/267 | 2 ++ tests/qemu-iotests/check | 12 ++++++++++-- tests/qemu-iotests/common.rc | 14 ++++++++++++++ tests/qemu-iotests/group | 14 +++++++------- tests/qemu-iotests/iotests.py | 16 +++++++++++----- 8 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) -- 2.18.1