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'make extra-tests' was a monolithic set of tests that did all sorts of things: valgrind, tests over local guests, tests with upstream qemu, tests with upstream libvirt, tests with the appliance attach method. This made it hard to perform individual tests, eg. just valgrind testing. It was also hard to maintain because the tests were not located in the same directories as the programs and sometimes duplicated tests that were run elsewhere. This commit splits up 'make extra-tests' into 5 separate targets: make check-valgrind # run a subset of tests under valgrind make check-valgrind-local-guests # test under valgrind with local guests make check-with-appliance # test with attach-method == appliance make check-with-upstream-qemu # test with an alternate/upstream qemu make check-with-upstream-libvirt # test with an alternate/upstream libvirt (You can also still run 'make extra-tests' which is now simply a rule that runs the above 5 targets in order). This replaces everything that was in the tests/extra directory, so that has now gone.
This is a test tool, not a comprehensive test, but a "does it basically function" test, which can be packaged and given to end users. It also collects and prints a lot of internal debug information, which is useful in bug reports to track down appliance / qemu boot problems. For more information, please read the man page libguestfs-test-tool(1).