On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 03:58:21PM +0530, Ani Sinha wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 3:37 PM Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 11:04:30AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > > If it is actually booting a real guest image (from biosbits) and > > > interacting > > > with it, then it does feel like the scope of this testing is more > > > appropriate > > > to QEMU's avocado framework than qtest, especially given the desire to use > > > python for it all. > > > > > > With regards, > > > Daniel > > > > I feel avocado is directed towards booting full fledged guest OS. > > It makes it much easier to figure out guest issues but it also > > prone to false positives and is harder to debug as a result. > > Booting a minimal image like this shouldn't require that. > > Yes 100% agree with Michael on this. Biobits is *not* booting any OS > image. It runs off grub, that is, directly from bootloader stage. The > interraction with the VM is minimal.
Just because it doesn't run a whole Linux kernel, doesn't make it not a guest OS image. It is merely unsual in that it can do everything it needs from grub stage, because it is just poking low level BIOS stuff and doesn't need a full OS like Linux on top. This is still functional integration testing IMHO and relevant to avocado in QEMU. With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
