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
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.
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).