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+# vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
+
+#    Copyright (C) 2012 Yahoo! Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+#
+#    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+#    not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+#    a copy of the License at
+#
+#         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+#    WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+#    License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+#    under the License.
+
+from nova import test
+from nova import utils
+
+from nova.virt import images
+
+
+class ImageUtilsTestCase(test.TestCase):
+    def test_qemu_info(self):
+        path = "disk.config"
+        example_output = """image: disk.config
+file format: raw
+virtual size: 64M (67108864 bytes)
+cluster_size: 65536
+disk size: 96K
+blah BLAH: bb
+"""
+        self.mox.StubOutWithMock(utils, 'execute')
+        utils.execute('env', 'LC_ALL=C', 'LANG=C',
+                      'qemu-img', 'info', path).AndReturn((example_output, ''))
+        self.mox.ReplayAll()
+        image_info = images.qemu_img_info(path)
+        self.assertEquals('disk.config', image_info['image'])
+        self.assertEquals('raw', image_info['file format'])
+        self.assertEquals('64M (67108864 bytes)', image_info['virtual size'])
+        self.assertEquals('96K', image_info['disk size'])
+        self.assertEquals('bb', image_info['blah blah'])
+        self.assertEquals("65536", image_info['cluster_size'])
+
+    def test_qemu_info_snap(self):
+        path = "disk.config"
+        example_output = """image: disk.config
+file format: raw
+virtual size: 64M (67108864 bytes)
+cluster_size: 65536
+disk size: 96K
+Snapshot list:
+ID        TAG                 VM SIZE                DATE       VM CLOCK
+1     d9a9784a500742a7bb95627bb3aace38      0 2012-08-20 10:52:46 00:00:00.000
+"""
+        self.mox.StubOutWithMock(utils, 'execute')
+        utils.execute('env', 'LC_ALL=C', 'LANG=C',
+                      'qemu-img', 'info', path).AndReturn((example_output, ''))
+        self.mox.ReplayAll()
+        image_info = images.qemu_img_info(path)
+        self.assertEquals('disk.config', image_info['image'])
+        self.assertEquals('raw', image_info['file format'])
+        self.assertEquals('64M (67108864 bytes)', image_info['virtual size'])
+        self.assertEquals('96K', image_info['disk size'])
+        self.assertEquals("65536", image_info['cluster_size'])
+        # This would be triggered if the split encountered this section
+        self.assertNotIn('snapshot list', image_info)
+        bad_cap = '1     d9a9784a500742a7bb95627bb3aace38      0 2012-08-20 10'
+        self.assertNotIn(bad_cap, image_info)