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

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 5/30/19 11:33 AM, Alex Bennée wrote:
> 
> 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.

Is this the same issue I described there?
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-05/msg06784.html