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Christoph Hellwig6bf19c92009-06-22 18:29:05 +02001
2=== This is the QEMU I/O test suite ===
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4* Intro
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6This package contains a simple test suite for the I/O layer of qemu.
Stefan Weil657c1662010-11-07 14:56:57 +01007It does not require a guest, but only the qemu, qemu-img and qemu-io
Christoph Hellwig6bf19c92009-06-22 18:29:05 +02008binaries. This does limit it to exercise the low-level I/O path only
9but no actual block drivers like ide, scsi or virtio.
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11* Usage
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13Just run ./check to run all tests for the raw image format, or ./check
14-qcow2 to test the qcow2 image format. The output of ./check -h explains
15additional options to test further image formats or I/O methods.
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17* Feedback and patches
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19Please send improvements to the test suite, general feedback or just
20reports of failing tests cases to qemu-devel@savannah.nongnu.org.