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Commit 62c39b3 introduced test-qga, and at face value, appears to be testing the 'guest-sync' behavior that is recommended for guests in sending 0xff to QGA to force the parser to reset. But this aspect of the test has never actually done anything: the qmp_fd() call chain converts its string argument into QObject, then converts that QObject back to the actual string that is sent over the wire - and the conversion process silently drops the 0xff byte from the string sent to QGA, thus never resetting the QGA parser. An upcoming patch will get rid of the wasteful round trip through QObject, at which point the string in test-qga will be directly sent over the wire. But fixing qmp_fd() to actually send 0xff over the wire is not all we have to do - the actual QMP parser loudly complains that 0xff is not valid JSON, and sends an error message _prior_ to actually parsing the 'guest-sync' or 'guest-sync-delimited' command. With 'guest-sync', we cannot easily tell if this error message is a result of our command - which is WHY we invented the 'guest-sync-delimited' command. So for the testsuite, fix things to only check 0xff behavior on 'guest-sync-delimited', and to loop until we've consumed all garbage prior to the requested delimiter, which is compatible with the documented actions that a real QGA client is supposed to do. Ideally, we'd fix the QGA JSON parser to silently ignore 0xff rather than sending an error message back, at which point we could enhance this test for 'guest-sync' as well as for 'guest-sync-delimited'. But for the sake of this patch, our testing of 'guest-sync' is no worse than it was pre-patch, because we have never been sending 0xff over the wire in the first place. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20170427215821.19397-11-eblake@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [Additional comment squashed in, along with matching commit message update] Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
QEMU README
===========
QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and
virtualizer.
QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any
need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation,
it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen
and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the
hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve
near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulates CPUs directly it is
capable of running operating systems made for one machine (e.g. an ARMv7
board) on a different machine (e.g. an x86_64 PC board).
QEMU is also capable of providing userspace API virtualization for Linux
and BSD kernel interfaces. This allows binaries compiled against one
architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux PPC64 ABI) to be run on a host using a
different architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux x86_64 ABI). This does not
involve any hardware emulation, simply CPU and syscall emulation.
QEMU aims to fit into a variety of use cases. It can be invoked directly
by users wishing to have full control over its behaviour and settings.
It also aims to facilitate integration into higher level management
layers, by providing a stable command line interface and monitor API.
It is commonly invoked indirectly via the libvirt library when using
open source applications such as oVirt, OpenStack and virt-manager.
QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License,
version 2. For full licensing details, consult the LICENSE file.
Building
========
QEMU is multi-platform software intended to be buildable on all modern
Linux platforms, OS-X, Win32 (via the Mingw64 toolchain) and a variety
of other UNIX targets. The simple steps to build QEMU are:
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make
Additional information can also be found online via the QEMU website:
http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/Linux
http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/Mac
http://qemu-project.org/Hosts/W32
Submitting patches
==================
The QEMU source code is maintained under the GIT version control system.
git clone git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu.git
When submitting patches, the preferred approach is to use 'git
format-patch' and/or 'git send-email' to format & send the mail to the
qemu-devel@nongnu.org mailing list. All patches submitted must contain
a 'Signed-off-by' line from the author. Patches should follow the
guidelines set out in the HACKING and CODING_STYLE files.
Additional information on submitting patches can be found online via
the QEMU website
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches
Bug reporting
=============
The QEMU project uses Launchpad as its primary upstream bug tracker. Bugs
found when running code built from QEMU git or upstream released sources
should be reported via:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/
If using QEMU via an operating system vendor pre-built binary package, it
is preferable to report bugs to the vendor's own bug tracker first. If
the bug is also known to affect latest upstream code, it can also be
reported via launchpad.
For additional information on bug reporting consult:
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/ReportABug
Contact
=======
The QEMU community can be contacted in a number of ways, with the two
main methods being email and IRC
- qemu-devel@nongnu.org
http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
- #qemu on irc.oftc.net
Information on additional methods of contacting the community can be
found online via the QEMU website:
http://qemu-project.org/Contribute/StartHere
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