On 04/17/2012 02:44 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
Il 17/04/2012 09:33, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
I think the issue is that all of these machines mandate a -kernel option.
qtest doesn't care if you pass a -kernel but requiring a kernel in order to
test a device sucks especially if you don't possess the toolchain to build
such a kernel.
Just testing a device shouldn't require running a particular
board model either, of course.
qtest isn't so much testing a device. It is really testing a board with
improved determinism, debuggability and logging.
That said, I think a simpler solution is to set kernel/initrd/dtb to
"/dev/null" if qtest is enabled.
Why not refactor the check to be a QEMUMachine property (requires_kernel). That
way the check can be moved common code and that common code can have a single
check where it sets the parameters to /dev/null if qtest is enabled.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
Paolo
