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

[Kamil Rytarowski]

On 01.09.2017 11:21, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> 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
> 


NetBSD installer does not have scripting as far as I can say, but I
think it's waste of time and resources to do it for qemu CI. A single
image with BSD images will be supported for at least few years for
FreeBSD and NetBSD and one year for OpenBSD.

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