[libvirt] [PATCH] Improve error reporting in test suites

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:27:21AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 10/13/2010 08:45 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> >On 10/13/2010 05:11 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >>Before running each test case clear the thread local error
> >>indicator. After running each test case, dispatch any error
> >>that was reported
> >>
> >>* tests/testutils.c: Fix error reporting in test suites
> >>---
> >>tests/testutils.c | 4 ++++
> >>1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >
> >ACK.
> 
> Hmm, this adds a lot of noise to 'make check':
> 
> TEST: qemuxml2argvtest
>       ..libvir: QEMU error : unsupported configuration: the QEMU binary 
> /usr/bin/kvm does not support kvm
> ......libvir: QEMU error : unsupported configuration: the QEMU binary 
> /usr/bin/xenner does not support kvm
> ................................ 40
>       .....libvir: QEMU error : unsupported configuration: the QEMU 
> binary /usr/bin/xenner does not support kvm
> 
> ...
> TEST: nwfilterxml2xmltest
>       libvir: Network Filtererror : internal error protocolid has 
> illegal value 15
> .libvir: Network Filtererror : internal error opcode has illegal value 65536
> .libvir: Network Filtererror : internal error opcode has illegal value 65536
> .libvir: Network Filtererror : internal error dscp has illegal value 64
> ...
> 
> 
> It doesn't add any additional failures, but looks ugly.  We should 
> probably do something similar to 9e3525df8, by using 
> virtTestLogContentAndReset() in appropriate places to silence tests 
> where we expect an error to be logged, rather than leaking the errors 
> out the testsuite.

Hmm, I puzzelled why I didn't notice this :-(  I'll investigate, and if
there's no easy option, I'll disable this again.

Daniel
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