Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/10] tests: Add VM based build tests (for non-x86_64 and/or non-Linux)

[Fam Zheng]

On Tue, 08/22 15:58, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 22/08/2017 06:41, Fam Zheng wrote:
> > as it is not easy to automate. (The ideal approach is like the ubuntu.i386
> > script, which configures the guest on top of an official released image, 
> > fully
> > automatically.)
> 
> Out of curiosity, why can't the 32-bit test use containers instead?

It can.

This one is here just because what are distributed by hub.docker.com are x86_64
environments. Of course it's possible to do 32-bit builds with them, the i386
image just provides a bit more authenticity. I'm not counting on it to catch
more bugs than the mingw 32bit cross-build, but this makes a good example of
using basevm.py.

Fam