[libvirt] [PATCH 3/9] tests: qemuargv2xml: separate from qemuxml2argv data

[Cole Robinson]

On 02/05/2016 02:17 PM, Laine Stump wrote:
> On 02/05/2016 02:04 PM, Laine Stump wrote:
>> On 01/28/2016 03:30 PM, Cole Robinson wrote:
>>> Most of the qemuargv2xml tests are parsing old style qemu command
>>> lines (with -disk, -serial, etc), and it gets its input from
>>> qemuxml2argv output.
>>>
>>> But since we've raise the minimum supported qemu version to 0.12.0,
>>> which supports -device, once that changes propagates through libvirt
>>> the vast majority of qemuxml2argv output is _not_ going to be using
>>> old style qemu options.
>>>
>>> In preparation for this, switch qemuargv2xml to use its own copies
>>> of input and output, so it's not tied to qemuxml2argv results.
>>>
>>> This is just a straight copy of the current tests.
>>
>> I'm actually surprised to see this wasn't already the case! As many holes as
>> the qemu commandline parser has, I would have figured there would be a total
>> of 0 test cases that would survive a round trip xml->qemu->xml intact!
>>
>> This does bring up an important point that, although we can raise the qemu
>> commandline *generator* to always assume QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE, we can't do that
>> for the qemu commandline *parser* (which will forever have to support all
>> those old options :-(
>>
>> ACK.
> 
> BTW, I didn't mention it before, but I think these files also should lose (or
> rather "never gain" :-) the "qemuargv2xml-" prefix - it's already there in the
> directory name, no need to unnecessarily lengthen the filename.
> 

I agree with this bit. Once these patches go in I'll start a discussion about
it, I'd rather do it for every file in one go if that's what we decide.

Pushed this patch now, thanks!

- Cole