Replace strange $TEST_FUNCTIONS variable/expansion thing with
something more like what we use in nbdkit, a simple tests/functions.sh
script that gets sourced into each test script.
Update the common submodule to get:
commit 8137d47d0e654065391151eb275e3b64f230f6f5
Author: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Date: Thu Feb 13 11:13:55 2025 +0000
mlcustomize, mltools: Replace $TEST_FUNCTIONS
TEST_FUNCTIONS is being removed from libguestfs and guestfs-tools (it
was removed from virt-v2v a while back). Make the same adjustment in
the common submodule.
(and some other commits which are not relevant to libguestfs)
User-Mode Linux was an alternative hypervisor that could run the
appliance, instead of using qemu. It had many limitations including
lack of network, and UML support in Linux has been semi-broken for a
long time. It was also slower than KVM on baremeal in general and had
various corner cases which were much slower including the emulated
serial port which made bulk uploads and downloads painful. Also of
course it lacked qemu-specific features like qcow2 or any
network-backed disk, so many disk images could not be opened this way.
This was never supported in RHEL.
See-also: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1144197
Commit 6d32773e81 ("tests: Run the tests in parallel.") makes all of
the tests run in the same directory. Previously tests expected to be
run in their own subdirectories and so were freer about using generic
filenames. When run in parallel these filenames now clash. Fix
another case.
Fixes: commit 6d32773e81
Before this change the tests ran in about 12m34 and afterwards in
about 6m20, although the real change is more dramatic if you only run
tests from the tests/ subdirectory (as language tests still run serially).
This breaks valgrinding for now, which I intend to fix properly later.
Apply this change across all the shell scripts containing tests.
Additionally this defines the environment variables $abs_srcdir,
$abs_builddir, $top_srcdir, $top_builddir, $abs_top_srcdir and
$abs_top_builddir which can now be used throughout test scripts.
When possible, make the disk image format explicit when invoking tools
or using add-drive. This avoids warnings from qemu about the unspecified
format for the image, and also makes qemu slightly faster (skipping the
disk image probing).
Tests checking the image probing are not touched.
This changes also:
- old-style invocations of tools (`$tool $filename`) into new style
(`$tool -a $filename`)
- add-drive-ro/add-drive-with-if guestfish commands into add/add-drive
with explicit readonly/iface arguments
There should be no change in the tests results.
Create a new top-level directory called test-data, which will carry
all the test data which is large and/or shared between multiple tests.
There are actually several new subdirectories created:
test-data/binaries: The pre-built binary and library files for random
architectures that we use to test various architecture detection
features (was part of tests/data).
test-data/blank-disks: The blank disks which are used for disk format
detection (was part of tests/data).
test-data/files: Other miscellaneous test files from tests/data that
are not included in the above.
test-data/phony-guests: The phony guests (was tests/guests).
test-data: The top-level directory builds the 'test.iso' image file
that is used for testing the C API and in miscellaneous other tests.
All tests run under the ./run binary. For a long time the ./run
binary has set the $PATH environment variable to contain all of the
directories with binaries in them.
Therefore there is no reason to use ../fish/guestfish instead of just
plain guestfish (and the same applies to other built binaries).
