[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#1121473: libguestfs: flaky autopkgtest: mkfs_stub: /dev/sda1: No such file or directory

[Hilko Bengen]

* Emilio Pozuelo Monfort:

>> The autopkgtest failures rhyme with recent test failures during
>> builds
>> that I have only been able to reproduce if KVM was not available,
>> causing qemu to fall back to its TCG backend.
>> Can you tell me whether KVM can be used in autopkgtests?
> This is also affecting regular builds, at least on amd64, see [1].
> This is blocking the ongoing ocaml transition, can you take a look and
> hopefully provide a quick solution? 

Unfortunately, my last upload is now stuck in NEW because it
re-introduced guestmount which had been removed in a previous NMU. Sorry
about the delay.

> If those tests can't be run under qemu's TCG backend, and the package
> can't control which backend is in use, then maybe those tests should
> be disabled for the time being.

If the tests still fail, I will disable them for the time being.

Cheers,
-Hilko