Anthony Liguori <aligu...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > On 03/22/2011 07:00 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> We had a few migration related regressions recently. Do we have >> sufficient test cases in autotest for them? Also for migrating from >> older to the latest version? > > Autotest is too late and also not nearly rigorous enough for what > you're trying to catch. > > Here's how I propose we tackle this. This patch adds a -dump-savevm > option that takes a version. It spits out all of the fields we save > for a particular version (well, not really, but it should). We also > can add type information. The idea is that we'd write a simple test > case (using gtester) that ran through and dumped the schema for each > version. We'd store the schema's in the tree and the test can compare > old schema's to the current schema to check for failure. > > This was thrown together in just a few minutes. I'll try to put > together something more complete later today but I wanted to share > this before the call at least.
This would be an start, althought I still think that a way to dump a single device, and a way to dump the state of a device in a specific version is needed. Information as: - is this always saved - size of arrays - .... that is there is not saved. Later, Juan.
