Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] block: qemu-iotests - add basic ability to use binary sample images

2013-09-20 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 11:48:42PM -0400, Jeff Cody wrote: For image formats that are not QEMU native, but supported for compatibility, it is useful to verify that an image created with the 'gold standard' native tool can be read / written to successfully by QEMU. In addition to testing

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] block: qemu-iotests - add basic ability to use binary sample images

2013-09-20 Thread Jeff Cody
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 02:32:26PM +0200, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 11:48:42PM -0400, Jeff Cody wrote: For image formats that are not QEMU native, but supported for compatibility, it is useful to verify that an image created with the 'gold standard' native tool can be

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] block: qemu-iotests - add basic ability to use binary sample images

2013-09-20 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/19/2013 09:48 PM, Jeff Cody wrote: For image formats that are not QEMU native, but supported for compatibility, it is useful to verify that an image created with the 'gold standard' native tool can be read / written to successfully by QEMU. In addition to testing non-native images,

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] block: qemu-iotests - add basic ability to use binary sample images

2013-09-20 Thread Jeff Cody
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 06:46:56AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: On 09/19/2013 09:48 PM, Jeff Cody wrote: For image formats that are not QEMU native, but supported for compatibility, it is useful to verify that an image created with the 'gold standard' native tool can be read / written to

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] block: qemu-iotests - add basic ability to use binary sample images

2013-09-19 Thread Jeff Cody
For image formats that are not QEMU native, but supported for compatibility, it is useful to verify that an image created with the 'gold standard' native tool can be read / written to successfully by QEMU. In addition to testing non-native images, this could also be useful to test against image