On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 06:21:50PM +0100, Peter Lieven wrote: > In order to proceed with the integration of the NFS protocol driver into > qemu I was asked by Stefan to add integration for NFS into the qemu-iotests. > > Unfortunately, this became more complex than I had expected because most > of the tests for non RAW formats only work with the file protocol because > they use shell commands like cp, rm or mv which obviously don't work > on nfs:// URLs. > > This series first changes all those tests that are not working out of the > box to support only the file protocol. > > After the NFS protocol is introduced in Patch 2 I fix most of them > to work with any protocol. > > After this series the qemu-iotests for NFS run through gracefully with > the RAW, QCOW2 and VMDK formats. > > There are 3 topics open: > - test 051 fails regardless which protocol is used (I already send a msg > to the list) > - test 052 should work, but it seems there is a bug in the bdrv_open > logic if the BDRV_O_SNAPSHOT flag is set and the protocol is anything > else than file. Maybe someone with more understanding of the whole > open logic could look at this. I do not believe that its sth which > has to do with the NFS driver since the test fails while opening the > backing file and other backing file tests run without problems. > - other protocols like sheepdog or ssh that are allowed to use other formats > than raw should be tested. they actually can't never have run qemu-iotests > with qcow2 protocol for instance. > > If you want to do your tests please make sure to have > [PATCHv5] block: add native support for NFS > [PATCH v2] vmdk: Allow vmdk_create to work with protocol
Going through my email backlog. What is the status of this series? Stefan
