[libvirt] [PATCH] tests: Test for nwfilter

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 01:16:33PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:02:01PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> ...
> >> However, a test that's skipped whenever it detects a running
> >> libvirtd is less valuable than one that runs unconditionally,
> >> so libvirt-tck is probably the ideal destination.
> >>
> >> It is critically important to have an easily accessible "make check"-
> >> like process that can be used to exercise more of libvirt.
> >> I hope libvirt-tck will soon fit the bill.
> >
> > It already fits that bill & is catching & preventing significant  bugs in
> > QEMU. It has been invaluable in porting libvirt to the new QEMU JSON
> > interface for command & control - it wouldn't have been practical without
> > it in fact.
> 
> Didn't mean to impugn libvirt-tck.  On the contrary, it looks great.
> It's just that we need a way to be able to run -- quickly and conveniently --
> "make check"-style tests, including integration tests.

Personally I think it is sufficient to just let people invoke the tck command
line tool directly, eg  libvirt-tck -c /path/to/config  It is not more complex 
to invoke that, than invoke a 'make check' command.

If we really need a make command though, it could be done with something like

   TCK_CONFIG=$(top_srcdir)/tck.cfg

   tck:
	$(top_builddir)/daemon/libvirtd --pidfile foo.pid --config blah.cfg
	libvirt-tck -c $(TCK_CONFIG)
	kill `cat foo.pid`

though this is making assumptions that we need the daemon running for the
tests which is only true for certain URIs. Also, people probably do their
builds as non-root, but its useful to run the tests as root (at least for
qemu:///system or lxc://, but not needed for qemu:///session).

Regards,
Daniel
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