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

[Alex Bennée]

Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 02:47:02PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Ping.  Alex?  Fam?  Are you going to pick this up?  Or should I send a
> pull request?

I'm just looking at it now. It should be in the next testing/next. I'm
just checking to see if there is any crossover with:

  Subject: [PATCH 0/5] tests/vm: Python 3, improve image caching, and misc
  Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 17:07:59 -0400
  Message-Id: <address@hidden>

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Alex Bennée