It's worth to add a hotplug test to qtest, but without cooperation of guest OS, new devices can't be initialized by guest, and hot-unplug doesn't work.
However, the new test can cover some part of code of hotplug/unplug. I will write another subtest to test hotplug with pci support. V2: move qmp_exec_hmp_cmd() to libqtest.c excape hmp cmd (stefanha) use qmp_exec_hmp_cmd() in blockdev-test V3: use vp_list to format string, free escaped string V4: free escaped string by g_free() V5: escape cmd string in QMP command (so this patchset depends on http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/279835) directly use QMP cmd to add/del device and blockdev cleanup as suggested by Andreas V6: hot-unplug devices of one slot once escaping string fix in 1st patch depends on (https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-06/msg03024.html) Amos Kong (4): qtest: introduce qmp_exec_hmp_cmd() qtest: use qmp_exec_hmp_cmd() in blockdev-test virtio-blk-test: change pci_nop() to virtblk_init() virtio-blk-test: add hotplug subtest tests/blockdev-test.c | 23 ++------------ tests/libqtest.c | 23 ++++++++++++++ tests/libqtest.h | 9 ++++++ tests/virtio-blk-test.c | 81 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 4 files changed, 108 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-) -- 1.9.3