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Adding ``V=1`` to the invocation will show the details of how to
invoke QEMU for the test which is useful for debugging tests.
+Running individual tests
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Tests can also be run directly from the test build directory. If you
+run ``make help`` from the test build directory you will get a list of
+all the tests that can be run. Please note that same binaries are used
+in multiple tests, for example::
+
+ make run-plugin-test-mmap-with-libinline.so
+
+will run the mmap test with the ``libinline.so`` TCG plugin. The
+gdbstub tests also re-use the test binaries but while exercising gdb.
+
TCG test dependencies
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~