The Avocado v88 that we use in QEMU is already on a life support system: It is not supported by upstream anymore, and with the latest versions of Python, it won't work anymore since it depends on the "imp" module that has been removed in Python 3.12.
There have been several attempts to update the test suite in QEMU to a newer version of Avocado, but so far no attempt has successfully been merged yet. Additionally, the whole "make check" test suite in QEMU is using the meson test runner nowadays, so running the python-based tests via the Avocodo test runner looks and feels quite like an oddball, requiring the users to deal with the knowledge of multiple test runners in parallel. So instead of trying to update the python-based test suite in QEMU to a newer version of Avocado, we should maybe try to better integrate it with the meson test runner instead. Indeed most tests work quite nicely without the Avocado framework already, as you can see with this patch series - it does not convert all tests, just a subset since it is just an RFC so far, but as you can see, many tests only need small modifications to work without Avocado. If you want to try it: Apply the patches, make sure that you have the "pytest" program installed, then recompile and then run: make check-pytest Things that need further attention though: - All tests that use the LinuxTest / LinuxDistro classes (e.g. based on cloud-init images) really depend on the Avocado framework, thus we'd need a solution for those if we want to continue with this approach - Same for all tests that require the LinuxSSHMixIn class - we'd need to provide a solution for ssh-based tests, too. - We lose the way of running tests via the avocado tags this way... single targets can still be tested by running "make check-pytest-arm" for example, but running selected tests by other tags does not work anymore. - I haven't looked into logging yet ... this still needs some work so that you could e.g. inspect the console output of the guests somewhere - I did not work on documentation updates yet (will do that if we agree to continue with this patch series) What's your thoughts? Is it worth to continue with this approach? Or shall I rather forget about it and wait for the Avocado version update? Thomas Ani Sinha (1): tests/pytest: add pytest to the meson build system Thomas Huth (7): tests/pytest: Add base classes for the upcoming pytest-based tests tests/pytest: Convert some simple avocado tests into pytests tests/pytest: Convert info_usernet and version test with small adjustments tests_pytest: Implement fetch_asset() method for downloading assets tests/pytest: Convert some tests that download files via fetch_asset() tests/pytest: Add a function for extracting files from an archive tests/pytest: Convert avocado test that needed avocado.utils.archive tests/Makefile.include | 4 +- tests/meson.build | 1 + tests/pytest/meson.build | 74 ++++ tests/pytest/qemu_pytest/__init__.py | 362 ++++++++++++++++++ tests/pytest/qemu_pytest/utils.py | 21 + .../test_arm_canona1100.py} | 16 +- .../test_cpu_queries.py} | 2 +- .../test_empty_cpu_model.py} | 2 +- .../test_info_usernet.py} | 6 +- .../test_machine_arm_n8x0.py} | 20 +- .../test_machine_avr6.py} | 7 +- .../test_machine_loongarch.py} | 11 +- .../test_machine_mips_loongson3v.py} | 19 +- .../test_mem_addr_space.py} | 3 +- .../test_ppc_bamboo.py} | 18 +- .../version.py => pytest/test_version.py} | 8 +- .../test_virtio_version.py} | 2 +- 17 files changed, 502 insertions(+), 74 deletions(-) create mode 100644 tests/pytest/meson.build create mode 100644 tests/pytest/qemu_pytest/__init__.py create mode 100644 tests/pytest/qemu_pytest/utils.py rename tests/{avocado/machine_arm_canona1100.py => pytest/test_arm_canona1100.py} (74%) rename tests/{avocado/cpu_queries.py => pytest/test_cpu_queries.py} (96%) rename tests/{avocado/empty_cpu_model.py => pytest/test_empty_cpu_model.py} (94%) rename tests/{avocado/info_usernet.py => pytest/test_info_usernet.py} (91%) rename tests/{avocado/machine_arm_n8x0.py => pytest/test_machine_arm_n8x0.py} (71%) rename tests/{avocado/machine_avr6.py => pytest/test_machine_avr6.py} (91%) rename tests/{avocado/machine_loongarch.py => pytest/test_machine_loongarch.py} (89%) rename tests/{avocado/machine_mips_loongson3v.py => pytest/test_machine_mips_loongson3v.py} (59%) rename tests/{avocado/mem-addr-space-check.py => pytest/test_mem_addr_space.py} (99%) rename tests/{avocado/ppc_bamboo.py => pytest/test_ppc_bamboo.py} (75%) rename tests/{avocado/version.py => pytest/test_version.py} (82%) rename tests/{avocado/virtio_version.py => pytest/test_virtio_version.py} (99%) -- 2.45.2