[libvirt] [PATCH v2]

[Daniel Veillard]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 05:34:50PM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> This patch adds new test cases to the existing nwfilter test program and
> adds a test script that must be run while a VM is running. This test
> script verifies that input network filter XML creates expected
> user-defined tables and rules on ebtables, iptables & ip6tables layer
> and verifies their content against expected content. The idea is that
> these tools always return exactly the same output when displaying the
> content of a user-defined table so that the diff tool can be used for
> simple text comparison. All supported protocols have at least one test
> case. 
> This test program is not run automatically since it requires a running
> VM.

  I'm wondering a bit about this.

So far all our embedded tests from "make tests" are supposed to be
agnostic on the machine state, and I wonder if it ain't preferable to
kepp them that way. For example we have no real save/restore or
migration tests here because like the nwfilter rukes testing that would
require actual VM runnings.
To me it seems this test should rather be targetted to the TCK, the
separate test suite for libvirt:

  http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt-tck.git

that's really the place where tests relying on actual system behaviour
should be implemented, and IMHO the more people start to look at it the
better.
Dan sent an introduction when he created the project
  http://www.mail-archive.com/libvir-list@redhat.com/msg12703.html

and an update recently:
  http://www.mail-archive.com/libvir-list@redhat.com/msg21503.html

so some of the hairy shell scripting for this test could be replaced
with (less hairy ?) Perl testing, but in a framework really intended
to have actual running domains.

  I understand that the current version of the test is not supposed to
run if there is no domain target, but really it break the rule that
libvirt "make tests" should not be dependant on the machine state,

Daniel

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