[libvirt] test driver for interface config

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 11:41:39AM -0400, Laine Stump wrote:
> On 04/07/2009 11:16 AM, Cole Robinson wrote:
> >As an example of how the driver will likely be used, think of supporting
> >the interface APIs in virt-manager. As a developer, it would be nice to
> >use the test driver to ensure that all the UI updating as interfaces go
> >up and down, appear and disappear, etc. is in working order, and that
> >the XML we are building at least isn't completely bogus. Mopping up
> >those simple issues with the test driver will ideally make the live
> >functional testing less painful, and help isolate bugs in the app vs.
> >bugs in the library.
> >  
> 
> Thanks, I hadn't considered that end of testing. It definitely sounds 
> useful. I guess I need to make something more general purpose.
> 
> A netcf test mode might help, but it may not be useful enough - for 
> example it wouldn't work if the test client was one that didn't support 
> netcf - when connecting to a test driver, it's always on the local 
> machine, correct?

The test impl needs to be within libvirt so it is always available no
matter whether netcf is available for the build, so it shouldn't use
netcf at all.

Daniel
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