Re: [PATCH] kvm-unit-test: more documentation and runner script

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On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:06:20AM +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:40:37PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 06:03:41PM -0300, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote:
> > > On 02/27/2013 05:44 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > >>>+Using qemu (supported since qemu 1.3):
> > > >>>+qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -device pc-testdev -serial stdio -device isa-debug-exit,iobase=0xf4,iosize=0x4 -kernel ./x86/msr.flat
> > > >>
> > > >>I think it is worth here to point out that with new qemu, after the
> > > >>unittest is done, the exit status of qemu is 1, different from the
> > > >>'old style', whose exit status in successful completion is 0.
> > > 
> > > ^ "comment above"
> > > 
> > > >>
> > > >>>+exec ${command} "$@"
> > > >>
> > > >>^ What about checking the exit status of qemu here and print
> > > >>something like "test $@ PASS" or "test $@ FAIL"?
> > > >
> > > >How do we know how to interpret it?
> > > >Overall I think it's best to rely on test output
> > > >than on return status.
> > > 
> > > See comment above. Well, test output may be good for humans, but it
> > > is really not good for machines [1], that's why when the test suite
> > > was developed, the convention was to make qemu to exit with a given
> > > return code on success and others on failure.
> > 
> > Right but given a qemu binary, how do I find out what it is on success
> > and what it is on failure?
> > 
> Since you know what device you are using you know expected value for
> successful/failure.

So exit status is 1 for success 0 for failure?

> > > Anyway, it was just a
> > > suggestion, feel free to disregard it.
> > > 
> > > [1] having to parse the output and try to guess what is a pass or
> > > fail is a mess at best, and should be avoided unless we positively
> > > have no saner way of doing it.
> 
> --
> 			Gleb.
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