On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> wrote: > > stefa...@gmail.com writes: > >> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 03:35:07PM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote: >>> >>> stefa...@gmail.com writes: >>> >>> > >>> > Looks useful. To get more code coverage, flesh out the build >>> > environment: >>> >>> Thanks. Am I dreaming or are there some system image tests somewhere as >>> well? >> >> Anthony Liguori's "qemu-test" builds special-purpose Linux test guests: >> http://git.qemu-project.org/?p=qemu-test.git;a=tree > > It looks like this is more the sort of thing I want. Given the first > thing I found when playing with QEMU was a regression to one of the > system emulations (admittedly not one that's used that often nowadays > but it was the default). > >> <snip> >> Both qemu-test and KVM Autotest are heavy in the sense that they will >> download 100s of MB. Not sure if they are suitable for Travis CI. > > Surely a kernel with minimal user-space and running a simple script can > be kept under 10Mbs? This is essentially a smoke test to ensure QEMU can > still boot a kernel with whatever hardware it's trying to emulate. I'm > not sure the core translator needs much more exercising from user space > after it's booted up? I guess I should do some coverage profiling to > check. > > The Travis docs do mention a concept of binary packages of test data but > it's a little unclear if it could be applied to this problem. There is > something about fetching things from Amazon S3. Does the QEMU project > have much in the way of hosting facilities or does it rely on commercial > users to provide them? > > I wonder if there is an argument for allowing qemu-test to be added as a > submodule of qemu so the test scripts can be accessed directly even if > the images are pre-canned and stored somewhere else?
Anthony is the person to ask. I have CCed him. Stefan
