Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/14] tests/vm: serial console autoinstall, misc fixes.

[Alex Bennée]

Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden> writes:

> This patch series changes the way virtual machines for test builds are
> managed.  They are created locally on the developer machine now.  The
> installer is booted on the serial console and the scripts walks through
> the dialogs to install and configure the guest.
>
> That takes the download.patchew.org server out of the loop and makes it
> alot easier to tweak the guest images (adding build dependencies for
> example).
>
> The install scripts take care to apply host proxy settings (from *_proxy
> environment variables) to the guest, so any package downloads will be
> routed through the proxy and can be cached that way.  This also makes
> them work behind strict firewalls.
>
> There are also a bunch of smaller tweaks for tests/vm to fix issues I
> was struggling with.  See commit messages of individual patches for
> details.

Queued to testing/next, thanks.

One of the machines I'm testing on seems to have problems with getting
the installer working over the serial link but it works on my main dev
box and others have it working as well so I suspect it might be a local
problem.

>
> v3:
>  - python3 fixes.
>  - openbsd: configure memory limits.
>  - freebsd: configure autoboot delay.
>
> Gerd Hoffmann (14):
>   scripts: use git archive in archive-source
>   tests/vm: python3 fixes
>   tests/vm: send proxy environment variables over ssh
>   tests/vm: use ssh with pty unconditionally
>   tests/vm: run test builds on snapshot
>   tests/vm: proper guest shutdown
>   tests/vm: add vm-boot-{ssh,serial}-<guest> targets
>   tests/vm: add DEBUG=1 to help text
>   tests/vm: serial console support helpers
>   tests/vm: openbsd autoinstall, using serial console
>   tests/vm: freebsd autoinstall, using serial console
>   tests/vm: netbsd autoinstall, using serial console
>   tests/vm: fedora autoinstall, using serial console
>   tests/vm: ubuntu.i386: apt proxy setup
>
>  tests/vm/basevm.py        | 144 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  scripts/archive-source.sh |  72 +++++++--------
>  tests/vm/Makefile.include |  25 ++++-
>  tests/vm/fedora           | 187 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tests/vm/freebsd          | 179 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  tests/vm/netbsd           | 187 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  tests/vm/openbsd          | 158 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  tests/vm/ubuntu.i386      |   4 +
>  8 files changed, 858 insertions(+), 98 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100755 tests/vm/fedora


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Alex Bennée