iotests: Write test output to TEST_DIR

Drop the use of OUTPUT_DIR (test/qemu-iotests under the build
directory), and instead write test output files (.out.bad, .notrun, and
.casenotrun) to TEST_DIR.

With this, the same test can be run concurrently without the separate
instances interfering, because they will need separate TEST_DIRs anyway.
Running the same test separately is useful when running the iotests with
various format/protocol combinations in parallel, or when you just want
to aggressively exercise a single test (e.g. when it fails only
sporadically).

Putting this output into TEST_DIR means that it will stick around for
inspection after the test run is done (though running the same test in
the same TEST_DIR will overwrite it, just as it used to be); but given
that TEST_DIR is a scratch directory, it should be clear that users can
delete all of its content at any point.  (And if TEST_DIR is on tmpfs,
it will just disappear on shutdown.)  Contrarily, alternative approaches
that would put these output files into OUTPUT_DIR with some prefix to
differentiate between separate test runs might easily lead to cluttering
OUTPUT_DIR.

(This change means OUTPUT_DIR is no longer written to by the iotests, so
we can drop its usage altogether.)

Signed-off-by: Hanna Reitz <hreitz@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220221172909.762858-1-hreitz@redhat.com>
[hreitz: Simplified `Path(os.path.join(x, y))` to `Path(x, y)`, as
         suggested by Vladimir; and rebased on 9086c7639822b6
         ("tests/qemu-iotests: Rework the checks and spots using GNU
         sed")]
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/testenv.py b/tests/qemu-iotests/testenv.py
index 0f32897fe8..b11e943c8a 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/testenv.py
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/testenv.py
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ class TestEnv(ContextManager['TestEnv']):
     # pylint: disable=too-many-instance-attributes
 
     env_variables = ['PYTHONPATH', 'TEST_DIR', 'SOCK_DIR', 'SAMPLE_IMG_DIR',
-                     'OUTPUT_DIR', 'PYTHON', 'QEMU_PROG', 'QEMU_IMG_PROG',
+                     'PYTHON', 'QEMU_PROG', 'QEMU_IMG_PROG',
                      'QEMU_IO_PROG', 'QEMU_NBD_PROG', 'QSD_PROG',
                      'QEMU_OPTIONS', 'QEMU_IMG_OPTIONS',
                      'QEMU_IO_OPTIONS', 'QEMU_IO_OPTIONS_NO_FMT',
@@ -106,7 +106,6 @@ class TestEnv(ContextManager['TestEnv']):
              TEST_DIR
              SOCK_DIR
              SAMPLE_IMG_DIR
-             OUTPUT_DIR
         """
 
         # Path where qemu goodies live in this source tree.
@@ -134,8 +133,6 @@ class TestEnv(ContextManager['TestEnv']):
                                         os.path.join(self.source_iotests,
                                                      'sample_images'))
 
-        self.output_dir = os.getcwd()  # OUTPUT_DIR
-
     def init_binaries(self) -> None:
         """Init binary path variables:
              PYTHON (for bash tests)