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2016-04-15qemu-iotests: tests: do not set unused tmp variableSascha Silbe
The previous commit removed the last usage of ${tmp} inside the tests themselves; the only remaining users are sourced by check. So we can now drop this variable from the tests. Signed-off-by: Sascha Silbe <silbe@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Bo Tu <tubo@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Message-id: 1460472980-26319-4-git-send-email-silbe@linux.vnet.ibm.com Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
2014-09-22block: delete cow block driverStefan Hajnoczi
This patch removes support for the cow file format. Normally we do not break backwards compatibility but in this case there is no impact and it is the most logical option. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence so I will show why removing the cow block driver is the right thing to do. The cow file format is the disk image format for Usermode Linux, a way of running a Linux system in userspace. The performance of UML was never great and it was hacky, but it enjoyed some popularity before hardware virtualization support became mainstream. QEMU's block/cow.c is supposed to read this image file format. Unfortunately the file format was underspecified: 1. Earlier Linux versions used the MAXPATHLEN constant for the backing filename field. The value of MAXPATHLEN can change, so Linux switched to a 4096 literal but QEMU has a 1024 literal. 2. Padding was not used on the header struct (both in the Linux kernel and in QEMU) so the struct layout varied across architectures. In particular, i386 and x86_64 were different due to int64_t alignment differences. Linux now uses __attribute__((packed)), QEMU does not. Therefore: 1. QEMU cow images do not conform to the Linux cow image file format. 2. cow images cannot be shared between different host architectures. This means QEMU cow images are useless and QEMU has not had bug reports from users actually hitting these issues. Let's get rid of this thing, it serves no purpose and no one will be affected. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-id: 1410877464-20481-1-git-send-email-stefanha@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
2014-02-09qemu-iotests: change _supported_proto to file for various testsPeter Lieven
all these tests do anything of the following and thus fail with any protocol other than file: - the tests use rm, cp or mv shell commands which only work on file - the tests use qcow2.py - the images construct new filenames (e.g. backing file names) and the logic is broken for anything else than file Signed-off-by: Peter Lieven <pl@kamp.de> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
2014-01-22iotests: Test file format nestingMax Reitz
Add a test for nested image formats. Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>