Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 04/12] tests: Add vm test lib

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 04:39:38PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
> On Thu, 08/31 12:59, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> > Hi Fam,
> > 
> > On 08/31/2017 03:42 AM, Fam Zheng wrote:
> > > This is the common code to implement a "VM test" to
> > > 
> > >    1) Download and initialize a pre-defined VM that has necessary
> > >    dependencies to build QEMU and SSH access.
> > 
> > Looking at this project:
> > 
> > https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/qemu.html
> > 
> > Maybe we can have another CI that prepare/upload those images (reproducible,
> > easy upgrade version...), and document the build process in the JSON instead
> > of the wiki (so the doc is up to date).
> 
> Thanks for the pointer, looks interesting. The json files can be committed to
> QEMU if we go that way. Though I'm not very convinced by the "screen capture"
> style automation that is used by the *BSD user recipes I've found with google.
> It would be good if *BSD can have cloud-init or kickstart -alike automation,
> with those we don't even need Packer.

FreeBSD at least supports automation of its installer. eg 

  https://github.com/clalancette/oz/blob/master/oz/FreeBSD.py

Haven't found info on other *BSDs though.

Regards,
Daniel
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