2017-06-14 15:01+0300, Roman Kagan: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 09:28:59PM +0200, Radim Krčmář wrote: > > 2017-06-06 22:19+0300, Roman Kagan: > > > Add a test for Hyper-V message and event connections. > > > > > > It requires QEMU with the extended test device supporting message end > > > event connection test modes (recently posted on qemu-devel). On older > > > QEMU versions it fails. > > > > Doesn't QEMU provide a way to detect this feature from the outside (some > > command line magic) that we could use it to skip the test? > > I didn't know there was such a trick. However, I failed to figure out > how to get it to work here: the -device options appeared to be > interpreted after -kernel so it didn't cause a SKIP; Hm, the test should be skipped if QEMU fails to start. > adding a dedicated > toplevel command-line option would probably be an overkill. Right, I assumed that QEMU wants to prevent migration to QEMU's that don't support this feature (which usually implies a property), but it seems that there are no real users to care about ... The solution proposed by Paolo looks good. Thanks.