On 2/11/21 11:01 PM, Cleber Rosa wrote:
> Each instance of qemu.machine.QEMUMachine currently has a "test
> directory", which may not have any relation to a "test", and it's
> really a temporary directory.
>
> Users instantiating the QEMUMachine class will be able to set the
> location of the directory that will *contain* the QEMUMachine unique
> temporary directory, so that parameter name has been changed from
> test_dir to base_temp_dir.
>
> A property has been added to allow users to access it without using
> private attributes, and with that, the directory is created on first
> use of the property.
>
> Signed-off-by: Cleber Rosa <cr...@redhat.com>
> ---
> python/qemu/machine.py | 24 ++++++++++++++++--------
> python/qemu/qtest.py | 6 +++---
> tests/acceptance/virtio-gpu.py | 2 +-
> tests/qemu-iotests/iotests.py | 2 +-
> 4 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/python/qemu/machine.py b/python/qemu/machine.py
> index 6e44bda337..b379fcbe72 100644
> --- a/python/qemu/machine.py
> +++ b/python/qemu/machine.py
> @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ class QEMUMachine:
> args: Sequence[str] = (),
> wrapper: Sequence[str] = (),
> name: Optional[str] = None,
> - test_dir: str = "/var/tmp",
> + base_temp_dir: str = "/var/tmp",
Not this patch fault, but I see we use /var/tmp since commit
66613974468 ("scripts: refactor the VM class in iotests for reuse").
Can we use an OS agnostic method to get temp storage directory instead?
