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Commits 3c27f3d91e1566854747bbe844186783fc84f3a8 and 1b6f0daa9ae7fcc94e389232d0c397816cda973d added an internal API for running commands asynchronously. It is only used by the copy-in and copy-out APIs. Unfortunately this made the command code very complex: it was almost impossible to redirect stderr to a file, and there were a lot of long-range dependencies through the file. It was also buggy:

This is a more complete patch to add the test harness. The only parts missing now are the language bindings (except OCaml). The language bindings need a bit more thought. At the moment most language binding tests are done through some sort of shell script like perl/run-perl-tests which either runs each test itself or uses some language-specific machinary to run each test. The problem with that

Since v2: - Add perl tests. - Reworked and fixed the tests for virt-builder. - Some further minor bug fixes.

Since v3: - A large number of fixes, especially for running the tests on installed libguestfs. - Fixed EXTRA_DIST rules throughout. - Extra patch 17/17 which is a tidy-up of the generated XML listing guests. Rich.